Labor and Industrial Chronology of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

25 cents 50 cents affiliated agreement April Association August awarded contract Bakers Barbers began erection began operations Board boiler Boot and Shoe Boston Bourne Mills Bricklayers Brockton Bros Building Trades Central Labor Union cents an hour charter cotton December demand District Council eight-hour day Electric employed employees engine establish factory Fall River Fall River strikers February firm granted Haverhill Hours of Labor incorporated increase in wages increased capital indorsed Industrial Changes International Iron Workers Union January journeymen July June Labor Day leased Leather looms Machine Makers manufacture March Mass Massachusetts master membership Metal Mills nine-hour day non-union November October organized overtime paid Painters plant Plumbers providing purchased refused request Saturday half-holiday schedule September September 30 Shoe Workers shut Steamfitters strikers Strikes and Lockouts struck succeeded Team Drivers Teamsters Trade Unions two-story union label voted Wages and Hours weavers week Woolen Workers Union Workingmen's Benefits workmen