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The building is now the Charles Hayes Family Investment Center operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. The mural was created in 1974 by William Walker,"father of the Chicago mural movement" and commissioned by the Illinois Labor History Society with funding from the Illinois Arts Council. The mural was restored in 1998 by Bernard Williams.
The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) is an umbrella organization for unions in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a subordinate body of the AFL–CIO , and as of 2011 has about 320 affiliated member unions representing half a million union members in Cook County.
The episode was a watershed moment in the labor movement, and its history was commemorated in the annual May Day ... A History of Chicago (3 vol., Volume I: ...
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (96): 287– 288. ISSN 0294-1759. JSTOR 20475227. Dabscheck, Braham (2007). "Review of Death in the Haymarket: A Story Of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America".
Life of Albert R. Parsons : with brief history of the labor movement in America. Chicago: L. E. Parsons. Riedy, James L. (1979). Chicago Sculpture: Text and Photographs. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01255-0. Smith, Carl (1995). Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model ...
American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) July 1903 (United States) Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads child workers in demanding a 55-hour work week. 1904 (United States) New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike. [25] 1904 (United States) United Packinghouse Workers of America. [25] 1904 (United States)
On 1 May 1886 Albert Parsons, head of the Chicago Knights of Labor, led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue in Chicago in what is regarded as the first modern May Day Parade, with the cry, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." In the next few days they were joined nationwide by 350,000 workers who went on strike at 1,200 factories, including ...
Communist Party USA in the labor movement. 1919–1937; 1937–1957 ... The meeting was regarded by contemporary observers as the largest meeting in the history of ...