Legendary labor leader and socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs becomes charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Five years later he is leading the national union and in 1893 helps found the nation’s first industrial union, the American Railway Union - 1875

Rubber Workers begin sit-down strike at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. - 1936

Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio - 1936