1910

• Nearly one-third of the nation's coal miners are unionized, compared to 10 percent of workers in other industries.
• On January 1, more than 2.5 million women (more than one-third of the U.S. female workforce) work as housekeepers. African American and immigrant women hold the majority of these jobs.
• On June 18, Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act, which empowers the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad, cable, wireless, telephone, and telegraph companies.
• In July, a survey reports that an unskilled laborer who worked twelve-hour days, seven days a week, could not support a family of five. Poverty forced wives and children to work.
• On September 7, the U.S. and Great Britain settle their dispute over fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean.
• On October 1, twenty people are killed and seventeen injured when John J. and James McNamara blow up the Los Angeles...