First daily labor newspaper, "N.Y. Daily Sentinel", begins publication - 1830

George Henry Evans publishes the first issue of the Working Man’s Advocate, “edited by a Mechanic” for the “useful and industrious classes” in New York City. He focused on the inequities between the “portion of society living in luxury and idleness” and those “groaning under the oppressions and miseries imposed on them.” - 1829

William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union, born - 1828