1931: The Air Line Pilots Association is founded at a meeting in Chicago attended by 24 activists from across the country.
1935: Hundreds of Transport Workers Union members descend on a New York City courthouse offering their own money to bail out their president, Mike Quill, and four other union leaders arrested while making their way through Grand Central Station to union headquarters after picketing the IRT offices in lower Manhattan.
1954: Construction on the St. Lawrence Seaway begins. Ultimately 22,000 workers spent five years building the 2,342 mile route from the Atlantic to the northernmost part of the Great Lakes.
1987: I.W. Abel, president of the United Steel Workers of America from 1965 to 1977, dies at the age of 79.
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