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On this day in Labor History

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November 3, 1921

Striking milk drivers dump thousands of gallons of milk on New York City streets - 1921

September 2, 1921

Mineowners bomb West Virginia strikers by plane, using homemade bombs filled with nails and metal fragments. The bombs missed their targets or failed to explode - 1921

August 31, 1921

10,000 striking miners began a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their union, the UMWA. Federal troops were sent in, and miners were forced to withdraw 5 days later, after 16 deaths - 1921

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