International Typographical Union
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The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a North American trade union for the printing trade for newspapers and other media. It was founded on May 3, 1852, in the United States as the National Typographical Union, and changed its name to the International Typographical Union at its Albany, New York, convention in 1869 after it began organizing members in Canada. The ITU was one of the first unions to admit female members, admitting women members such as Augusta Lewis, Mary Moore and Eva Howard in 1869.
International Typographical Union exhibit at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Eight-hour day
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The eight-hour day was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses of working time.
Eight-hour campaign in Denmark, 1912
Banner from the 1835 Philadelphia general strike promoting the ten-hour workday. In the lower right-hand corner is written the slogan 6 to 6. Also the worker points to the clock which shows six indicating it is time to stop working.
Artist impression of the bomb explosion in Haymarket Square
Eight-hour day march circa 1900, outside Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne