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December 3, 1910
Brotherhood of Timber Workers organized. The Brotherhood – which affiliated with the International Workers of the World two years later -- was a union of sawmill workers from East Texas and West Louisiana and not only included female members, but was known for having interracial membership at a time when racial segregation was increasing in many areas of the Deep South - 1910
November 26, 1910
Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door from which the women could flee was locked - 1910
October 1, 1910
Twenty-one die when the L.A. Times building is dynamited during a citywide fight over labor rights and organizing. A union member ultimately confessed to the bombing, which he said was supposed to have occurred early in the morning when the building would have been largely unoccupied - 1910