A Chicago "slugger," paid $50 by labor unions for every scab he "discouraged," described his job in an interview: "Oh, there ain't nothing to it. I gets my fifty, then I goes out and finds the guy they wanna have slugged, then I gives it to ‘im" - 1911

James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” published in The American Magazine; the phrase was originated by state factory inspector Helen Todd around the issue of women's suffrage - 1911

New York City agrees to pay women school teachers a rate equal to that of men - 1911