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Labor Day: Remembering the Stugglenew

Illinois remembers the working-class heroes who fought for the eight-hour day, the Workers Compensation Act and the law requiring children to finish elementary school before going to work.
Illinois Times  |  Todd Spivak  |  09-02-2004  |  Business & Labor
Tags: labor leader Mary Harris Jones -- popularly known as Mother Jones, Leslie Orear, Oak Ridge Cemetery gravesite of John L. Lewis, president of the Illinois Labor History Society, president of the United Mine Workers of America, business & labor

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