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Mattie Dirk 1877 - 1969

Mattie Dirk of Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina was born on March 10, 1877, and died at age 92 years old in December 1969.
Mattie Dirk
Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina 29621
March 10, 1877
December 1969
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    1877

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    March 10, 1877
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  • 12/dd
    1969

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    December 1969
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In 1877, in the year that Mattie Dirk was born, on July 14th, strikes and resulting riots began at the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad. A sympathy strike and rioting began in Pittsburgh and a worker's rebellion began in St. Louis, then spread to other cities. 100 people were killed before the strikes ended when President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to each of the cities involved.
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In 1884, by the time she was merely 7 years old, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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