On February 11, 1937, workers paraded out of the General Motors body plant in Flint, Michigan, victorious after 44 days. “Suddenly in the distance we heard them singing ’Solidarity Forever,’” recalled Shirley Foster, the wife of a union organizer. “It was an enormous celebration all over the city that night. Flint would never know a feeling like that again.”
https://www.history.com/news/flint-sit-down-strike-general-motors-uaw

The Grabow riot, or Grabow massacre, occurred on July 7, 1912, near Grabow, Louisiana. A clash between unionized timber workers and private police left four dead, including union leader Asbury Hall, and around 50 injured. It marked a pivotal moment in unionizing sawmill workers during the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911-1912. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabow_riot

Mildred -- Millie – Beik was born on this date. A historian and librarian, she’s the author of a highly regarded book, The Miners of Windber, about the immigrants and labor struggles of coal miners in her hometown of Windber, Pennsylvania.