1638-English Puritans arrive at the lands of the Quinnipiacs. The English new-comers negotiate with the Native-American sachems, one of whom is Shaumpishuh, sister of Momauguin, chief of the Quinnipiacs. The Quinnipiacs give up their land, in exchange for protection by the English against the hostile Pequot and Mohawk tribes. Possibly the first reservation in North America is established, limiting the Quinnipiacs to just 30 acres. The English name their colony the "New Haven."

1655-John Winthrop and Stephen Goodyear begin first iron forge and foundry in New Haven.

1660-Founding of Hopkins Grammar School.

1716-Elihu Yale donates large sum of money to the Collegiate School. In his honor, Collegiate School changes its name to Yale College.

1717-Yale College, perhaps Connecticut's first runaway shop, moves from Saybrook to New Haven.

1736-Abel Parmalee sets up a New Haven bell foundry.

1754-Thirty-eight Irish servants arrive in New Haven.

1774-New Haven's African-American population set at 273.

1775-Benjamin Franklin organizes the first Connecticut newspaper in New Haven, The Connecticut Gazette.

1776-Continental Congress passes the Declaration of Independence; Roger Sherman of New Haven one of the signers.

Joseph Parker sets up paper mill in Westville (Whalley and Dayton).

1776.?-Gun powder produced in Westville for the Revolution.

1784-The Connecticut State legislature incorporates greater part of the Town of New Haven into the City of New Haven. The Elm City becomes the fifth incorporated city in the U.S. (after New York, Philadelphia, Albany, and Richmond), and the first city to be incorporated after the Revolution.

1785-Abel Parmalee and associates establish a small coin mint on Water Street.

1793-Mechanic Library Society is founded. By 1801, the Library Society has 700 volumes.

1798-Eli Whitney opens his firearms factory. His technological invention, interchangeable parts, helps establish mass production in the United States.

1807-The General Society of Mechanics of New Haven is founded "to promote and regulate the mechanical arts."

1812-During the War of 1812, New Haven is predominantly a naval and shipping community. 600 seamen reside in New Haven during the war.

The newspaper, The Columbia Register is formed. Later this becomes the New Haven Register

1818-According to Benham's New Haven Directory, New Haven's manufacturers consist of one hat factory, one nail factory, one powder mill, two cotton mills, two papermills, and 17 boot and shoe shops.

1821-The Mutual Benevolent Society of Cordwainers of New Haven created.

1824-Construction of Farmington Canal brings many Irish workers to New Haven.

1826-General Hospital Society of Connecticut starts in New Haven. This is the precursor of Yale New Haven Hospital.

1827-James Brewster opens first carriage shop. New Haven will become the carriage-making capital of the world by mid-19th century.

1831-New Haven workers send delegates to a meeting of the New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics, and other Working Men.

James Brewster institutes the Lyceum, to provide expert speakers on the important social questions of the day for New Haven's workers.

1833-New Haven employers establish the New Haven Mutual Aid Society.

1836-New Haven workers send delegates to the national convention of shoemakers.

1839-Amistad Slave Revolt. Aboard the slave ship Amistad, fifty Mendi warriors, led by their chief Cinque, revolt and capture the vessel. They attempt to sail the ship back to Africa, but are intercepted by the U.S. Coastal Patrol and brought to New Haven.

New Havener, George Goodyear, invents a process to vulcanize rubber.

1839-1840-Railroad begins operation between New Haven and Meriden. By 1840, railroad reached Hartford.

1840-Bavarian Jews organize first synagogue, Mishkan Israel, in New Haven. Two leaders of this community, Max Adler and Isaac Strouse, will later become leaders of New Haven's corset industry.

1842-Connecticut passes law limiting child labor to just 10 hours per day.

1843-The L. Candee Rubber Co. founded to produce rubber overshoes.

1847-George Winchester establishes first shirt-making factory In the U.S., employing 800 workers.

1848-Railroad service begins between New Haven and New York.

1850-U.S. Census sets the New Haven population at 20,345.

1851-Isaac Singer invents the treadle-powered sewing machine, creating a revolution in the manufacturing of clothing.

1852-Charter issued for New Haven Typographical Workers Union, Local 47.

1853-First public grade school, Noah Webster, founded in New Haven.

1860-U.S. Census sets the New Haven population at 40,000.

New Haven is the home of 216 manufacturing companies, employing 4,900 men and 3,100 women.

Abraham Lincoln campaigns for the presidency in New Haven. He declares, "I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails in New England under which laborers strike when they want to." Lincoln carries New Haven in the election by only 128 votes out of 6,154 cast.

Alfred W Phelps and William Gibson of New Haven organize the Eight-Hour League to fight for the eight-hour workday.

Isaac Strouse buys out the McAllister and Smith corset manufacturing business. Using sewing machines developed by Isaac Singer, Strauss and his employee, Max Adler, build a huge "home industry" for corset production. Adler sells the Singer sewing machines door to door to Yankee, Irish, and German women. Singer gives Strouse and Adler a percentage of the sales. In going door to door, Adler also recruits sewers for corset production.

1861-1865-United States Civil War.

1861-Bigelow Co. is founded by Hobart Bigelow, future New Haven mayor.

1865-J.B. Sargent and Co. is founded on Water St. to produce hardware.

1866-National Labor Union formed (NLU). Alfred Phelps and William Gibson of New Haven are elected officers of NLU.

1866-Isaac Strouse establishes the first corset factory in the United States on Oak St. This is the precursor of the Strouse, Adler Co.

1867-New Haven workers host the Connecticut convention of the "Workingmen's Union of Connecticut."

First Bricklayers and Plasterers union is organized. Dissolved in 1873. Reorganizes in 1881, Local 6.

1869-The "Noble Order of the Knights of Labor" is organized.

1870-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 50,840.

John M. Marlin establishes gun factory.

1871-Printers strike Journal-Courier

1872-Moulders strike at Sargent's.

Construction of first Hillhouse High School at the corner of Wall and Orange.

Twenty-nine carriage firms doing business in New Haven, making it the city's most important industry of the era.

Augusta Lewis, corresponding secretary of the

National Typographical Workers Union, and the first woman in the United States to win national union office, marries Alexander Troup, editor of the New Haven Daily Union, a New Haven labor newspaper.

1873-State legislature determines that City of Hartford shall be the sole capital of Connecticut. New Haven no longer is co-capital.

1876-Cigarmakers organize Local 39.

1877-Tailors and Cigarmakers hold a picnic on the Green to help the striking cigarmakers in New York City.

Great Railroad Strike across the U.S.

1878-First commercial telephone exchange in the world established in New Haven.

1880-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 62,882.

Adelbert W Flint organizes A.W. Flint Co.

1881-Council of Trade and Labor Unions is born. Later called simply the Trades Council. In its first year, it urged city ownership of the waterworks and the establishment of a Bureau of Labor Statistics. H.H. Weld elected first president.

The Diamond Match Company buys Thomas Sanford's New Haven Match Co. and moves it to Ohio.

1882-First Labor Day celebration held in New York City.

New Haven Typos strike three New Haven newspapers, the Palladium, the Journal-Courier, and the Morning News in protest over wage cuts.

According to the Illustrated History of the Trades Council, on October 31, 1882, the Trades Council "having resisted the efforts of politicians to get its vote, one way or another, passed a resolution which was plain and not to be misunderstood. It was to the effect that the Council for the present would keep in the middle of the road, so far as parties were concerned, and intimated that later on it would probably have candidates of its own."

1884-New Haven Trades Council takes an active part in establishing the Connecticut State Branch of the American Federation of Labor, first state AFL chapter in the United States.

Charter issued for Plumbers Local 21.

1885-First Knights of Labor assembly formed in New Haven. It joins the Trades Council. Ten K. of L. assemblies formed in New Haven with a membership of 6,000.

1886-National craft unions form the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

1886-Knights of Labor urges boycott of the anti-union newspaper The Courier: Lawyers for the newspaper bring charges of criminal conspiracy and libel against the union. The Ct. Supreme Court rules that anyone who attempts to prevent an employer from hiring could be fined and sent to jail. This remains the law in the State of Connecticut until the 1930s.

Largest strike wave in New Haven history. U.S. government records 21 New Haven work stoppages. The New York Times edition of May 2, 1886 writes, "This town (New Haven) has picked up the reputation lately of having more strikes than any other city of its size in the country. Very likely it deserves it; at any rate the labor problem is in everyone's mouth."

New Haven workers form their own Labor Lyceum to debate the important social questions of the day.

Industry-wide strike of carriage workers erupts for shorter hours, higher wages, and the right to unionization.

Women at Candee Rubber Co., members of the Knights of Labor, strike against a reduction in their piece rate. Charter issued for Ironmoulders Local 60. 1887-New Haven Public Library opens. Charter issued for Bakers and Confectioners Local 11. 1888-The Winchester Arms Company purchases the Whitney Arms Company. 1890-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 86,045.

Nine corset firms operate in New Haven, employing over three thousand workers, mostly Jewish and Italian women. New Haven is the largest producer of corsets in the United States.

Charter issued to Branch 19, National Association Socialist organizer, Ida Van Etten, speaks at New Haven's Proctor Opera House to a crowd of 400 women corset makers. She refers to the corset workers as "the queens of labor."

1892-L. Candee Rubber Co., the third largest rubber factory in the world, merges to form the U.S. Rubber Company.

Charter issued for Carpenters Local 79.

1893-City of New Haven contracts with private company to provide electricity for city buildings. In 1899, United Illuminating Company (Ul) created.

1894-Beginning of nation-wide railroad strike led by Eugene V Debs.

1895-Charter issued for Brewery workers Local 37; fight for the nine-hour day.

1896-Charter issued for Printing Pressmen Local 74.

1897-Women vote in New Haven school board election. First time in Connecticut history that women are permitted to vote.

Charter issued for Stereotypers Local 27.

1899-Trades Council publishes Illustrated History of the Trades Council of New Haven. Alex G. Ryder of the International Typographical Workers is council president.

Charter issued for IBEW Local 90.

1900-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 108,000.

IAM Lodge 420 organizes Joseph Tone, later to be Commissioner of Labor for the State of Connecticut, was a member of this lodge).

Charter issued for International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees Local 74.

1901-Charter issued for Bartenders Local 217.

1902-The "General Union of the Italians," at Sargent's, local 205 of the Metal Polishers Union, strikes in protest of the firing of a shop steward. Sargent's brings in scabs from other ethnic groups and Yale University students to break the strike.

Charter issued for Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employees.

Charter issued for New Haven Federation of Musicians Local 234.

Charter issued for Plumbers Local 349.

Charter issued for Barbers Local 215.

1903-Italian workers strike against the New Haven Railroad, under the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Union.

Strike of the drivers of horse-drawn wagons to win the teamster's union Local 340 wage scale is broken, as the New Haven Chamber of Commerce headquarters lodges scabs recruited from out of town.

1905-The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) holds its first convention in Chicago.

Women at the Candee Rubber Company on strike.

Printers throughout Connecticut, including New Haven, strike for the eight-hour day.

1906-National Folding Box Company builds the world's largest paper box factory on James St.

1907-Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth establish Hospital of St. Raphael.

1908-U.S. Supreme Court rules that the use of the boycott by the United Hatters of Danbury (CT) violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

1909-Alfred Carleton Gilbert forms the Mysto Magic Co., later to be known as A.C. Gilbert Co.

1910-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 133,605.

1912-International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators, Local 273, organizes.

1913-Charter issued for Heat ~ Frost Insulators Asbestos Workers Local 33.

1915-450 workers at I. Newman Corset Co. strike and win a 12 percent increase in pay They organize into Local 40 of the ILGWU.

1916-In September, women from throughout Connecticut rally in New Haven for the right to vote. More than 4,000 women participate. On the same day, women march to the Winchester factory to carry their message to the workers.

1917-1918-U.S. participation in World War I.

1917-Charter issued for Railway Clerks Local 2162.

1918-Charter issued for National Federation of Post Office Clerks Local 237.

1919-The Telephone Employees Association (T.E.A.) organizes at the Southern New England Telephone Company.

O.F Mossberg starts his gun factory.

1920-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 162,537.

1920-The New Haven Clock Co., the world's largest clock factory, employs 2,000 workers.

1922-New Haven is the home of 550 companies, employing 28,000 workers.

New Haven Railroad workers join the nationwide railroad workers strike. Strike is broken when United States Attorney-General, Harry Daugherty, wins a sweeping injunction in the federal courts to stop the strike.

1923-Strike of 1,000 Italian construction workers is broken.

1926-Charter is issued for New Haven Painters and Decorators Union, Local 186.

1927-New Haven necktie workers strike is broken as the city invokes an ordinance passed during World War I which outlaws leafleting, parades, and speaking in public spaces without police permission.

1928-The first Connecticut local of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Local 204, organizes at Yale University.

Labor College is founded by pro-labor Yale professors and union leaders. Classes are held for workers on the Yale campus on social and political problems.

1930-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 162,655.

Hotel and Restaurant Employees Alliance, Local 404 organizes.

1931-Congress passes the Davis-Bacon Act which provides for payment of the prevailing wage to workers on public construction jobs.

1932-Congress passes the Norns-LaGuardia Act which outlaws the use of the injunction in labor disputes. It also outlawed the "yellow dog" contract.

The Depression hits New Haven hard. Twenty-five percent of the labor force is out of work. The government of the City of New Haven is fiscally bankrupt, as it cannot provide for relief for unemployed workers from shrinking municipal revenues.

1933-Industry-wide strike in shirt and dress shops. ACWA and ILGWU organize every shirt and dress shop in the city. The Shirtmakers Union, Local 125 and ILGWU, Local 151 are born. The strikers are mostly Italian-American, Polish-American, and African-American women.

United States Congress passes National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), allowing for collective bargaining under Section 7(a). NRA declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1935.

Henry J. Tierney is president of the Trades Council.

Charter issued for Aluminum Workers' Union Local 18738.

1935-United States Congress passes the Wagner Act.

United States Congress passes the Social Security Act.

Whitney-Blake workers on strike.

New Haven Unemployed League organizes.

Domestic servants, under the leadership of Mrs. Lena Weinberger, begin the International Service Society.

ACWA strikes the Premier Pyjama Co.

May Day celebration in New Haven, led by Trades Council, ACWA, ILGWU, the Workingmen's Circle, and the Workers' Party.

Charter issued to Retail Cigar Salesmen's Union, Local 961.

Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers is founded in New Haven on August 1 to become the bargaining agent for SNET workers.

New Haven Mayor John Murphy elected Vice President of the Connecticut State Federation of Labor, AFL. Mayor Murphy, a member of the cigar makers union, was also president of the Trades Council.

1936-1937-In Akron and Detroit, CIO-led sit down strikes in the rubber and auto industries begin.

1936-New Haven Central Labor Council opposes the AFL's expulsion of the unions which created the Committee for Industrial Organization. Alexander Driessens of the cigar makers elected council president, defeating Henry Tierney

On April 28, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at New Haven's Hotel Garde, as guest of the Trades Council Educational Committee.

At its May meeting, the Trades Council votes to change its name to the Central Labor Council of New Haven.

On August 16, Bessie Hillman speaks to ACWA membership in New Haven on the topic, "Why Labor Stands for Roosevelt."

1937-Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) is founded. A CIO sub-regional office is set up in New Haven.

Harold V Feinmark of the Typos defeats Alexander Dnessens 66-62 for presidency of the New Haven Central Labor Council. Both candidates express support for the goals of the CIO.

CIO organizes New Haven Gas Company workers into the United Mine Workers.

CIO organizes New Haven Duro Gloss workers into the United Rubber Workers.

CIO strikes at Stabrite Product Co. in Westville.

CIO organizes workers at Marlin's Firearms.

WELI Radio broadcasts debate between AFL and CIO partisans.

The UE, CIO sets up a New Haven office; Sargent's is its prime target.

Dextone Workers Union, Local 20705, AFL organizes.

At its September convention, the Connecticut State Federation of Labor, AFL, expels the 10 CIO affiliated unions. Governor Wilbur Cross is speaker at the convention; praises the AFL for the expulsion and for the AFLs opposition to the sitdown strike.

1937-New Haven CIO office is situated at 207 Orange St., in the same building as the ACWA and the ILGWU.

CIO strikes at Duro Gloss Rubber Co..

New Haven cigar makers strike to oppose machine-made cigars.

Strike of T.A.D Jones Coal Co. dock workers, under the United Maritime Union, CIO.

Fur workers, CIO, strike at Kramer's and Kresel and Wolf, Inc.

1938-United Rubber Workers, Local 93, CIO chartered at Armstrong Rubber. West Haven.

1938-Lesnow's, New Haven's largest shirt manufacturer, leaves for Easthampton, MA. At the end of the year, Brewster's Shirts will move to New Haven from Danbury.

CIO strikes break out at Marlin's, Empire Furniture Co., and Carroll Perfume Co. (West Haven).

CIO Council of New Haven organizes, consisting of delegates from 11 local unions.

CIO organizes Diamond Furniture Co. on Cedar St.

Central Labor Council, AFL, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, speaks at the Council's Golden Jubilee Banquet.

New Haven Central Labor Council, AFL publishes Labor Digest.

Charter issued to Local 243, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, CIO, at Sargent's.

1940-U.S. Census establishes New Haven population at 160,605.

Two-month successful strike of 600 workers of the Malleable Iron Fittings Co. in Branford, led by the United Steel Workers Organizing Committee (USWOC), CIO.

According to the CIO Connecticut Year Book l940, the New Haven Industrial Union Council, CIO, is the largest CIO central body in the State of Connecticut, with 14 affiliated unions.

President Harold Feinmark of the Central Labor Council, AFT, proudly announces that 13 restaurants have been unionized in New Haven, and one each in Milford and North Haven.

Charter issued to Local 371, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

1941-The UE, CIO wins collective bargaining rights at Sargent's by a massive 4 to 1 margin.

1941-Service and Maintenance workers strike for one day at Yale University. Later that year, they organize into Local 142, United Construction Workers Organizing Committee, United Mineworkers Union, CIO.

AFL strikes at Armstrong Rubber.

In November, workers at Armstrong Rubber vote to replace AFL with the United Rubber Workers, CIO.

1941-1945-World War 11. Connecticut workers support the national No-Strike pledge.

1943-UE, CIO wins collective bargaining rights at M B Manufacturing.

UE, CIO wins collective bargaining rights at High Standard.

1945-The New Haven Police Union organizes.

1946-A group of New Haven teachers organizes Local 933 of the American Federation of Teachers, called the New Haven Federation of Teachers.

1947-Republican dominated Congress passes the Taft-Hartley act, over President Truman's veto. The Act severely curtails union rights won in the 1935 Wagner Act.

1949-50-CIO expels eleven left-wing unions.

1950-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 164,443. Census counts Yale students for the first time. Without Yale students, New Haven population would be 155,924.

Six-month strike of Rubber workers, CIO at Armstrong Rubber.

1951-UE, CIO workers strike against Sargent's.

Service and Maintenance Workers at Yale drop their affiliation with the United Mineworkers and become an independent union, Local 1, Yale University Employees.

1952-NLRB certifies the UAW, CIO as the collective bargaining representative of the American Cyanamid Company (Wallingford).

1953-Hotel and Restaurant Employees, AFL strike at the Hotel Taft.

Two-week strike of Yale University Employees, Local 1.

American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1674 (West Haven Veterans' Hospital) organizes.

1955-Merger of AFL and CIO.

The Office Workers at the Knights of Columbus win big strike.

IAM, Local 609, wins collective bargaining rights at Winchester's.

Yale University Employees, Local 1, organizes dining hall workers.

Charter issued to West Haven Professional Fire Fighters Local 1198.

1956-Yale University Employees, local 1, affiliates with Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, AFLCIO. It becomes Local 35, Federation of University Employees.

1957-Disastrous Franklin St. fire kills fifteen garment workers.

1960-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 152,048.

Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers, Local 8-53770 strikes against Cyanamid (Wallingford).

1961-Vincent J. Sirabella of Hotel and Restaurant Employees elected president of the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council.

Charter issued for Local 884, AFSCME, City of New Haven's Classified Employees.

Rubber workers strike Armstrong Rubber.

Greater New Haven Central Labor Council sponsors massive Labor Day Parade.

1962-Charter issued to Local 531, Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Charter issued to Western Connecticut Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union.

1963-The Teamsters Union charters Local 1150, at Sikorsky's in Stratford.

1964-United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination in employment and public accommodations.

1967-The New Haven Federation of Teachers, Local 933 AFT, wins collective bargaining rights for New Haven's teachers, ousting the long-established New Haven Teachers' League, an affiliate of the National Education Association.

Rubber workers strike at Armstrong Rubber.

1968-One-day strike of New Haven Federation of Teachers.

Charter issued to AFSCME, local 1939, Family Counseling of Greater New Haven.

Local 35, Federation of University Employees, strikes against Yale University.

1969-Wilson H. Lee, publications printing firm, closes. 500 jobs lost: typos, printers, book binders, teamsters and office workers.

IAM Local 609 strikes 17 weeks against Olin.

Charter issued to Local 1942, AFT, the Federation of Technical College Teachers.

1970-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 137,707.

Strike of the New Haven Federation of Teachers. Members of its negotiations team jailed.

Nation-wide "Great Postal Strike." 200,000 postal workers nation-wide walk off the job for two weeks.

Rubber workers strike at Armstrong Rubber.

1971-Community Health Care Plan (CHCP), the first labor-backed Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) opens in New Haven. Vincent J. Sirabella, president of the Central Labor Council, is elected chair of the CHCP Board of Directors.

Local 35, Federation of University Employees, strikes against Yale University. Workers march down Elm Street during Yale's commencement. Police try to stop the march; strikers beaten and jailed.

1973-OPEIU, Local 466, signs its first contract at CHCP

IAM, Local 609, strikes at Olin.

Strike of New Haven Federation of Teachers.

1974-Local 35, Federation of University Employees, strikes against Yale University.

UE strikes against Sargent's.

OPEIU strikes at CHCP

1975-Ninety union officers and rank and file New Haven Teachers jailed for striking against the Board of Education. Greater New Haven Central Labor Council calls for a general strike to prevent further jailing of striking teachers. On the eve of the general strike, Board of Education agrees to close the schools; around the clock negotiations settles the dispute and the teachers are released.

United Rubber Workers, Local 134, strikes three weeks against Bic Co. in Milford.

1976-Painters union strikes construction contractors.

OPEIU strikes at CHCP

1977-Local 35, Federation of University Employees, strikes against Yale University for 13 weeks.

Federation of Technical College Faculty, AFT, Local 1942, engages in first strike of state employees against the State of Connecticut.

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union organizes the retail workers at the Yale Co-Op.

Strike of Painters union at Gannett Outdoors.

1979-Frank Carrano of the teachers' union chosen to fill in the unexpired term of Vincent J. Sirabella, as president of Greater New Haven Central Labor Council.

IAM Local 609 strikes against Olin for six months.

UE workers strike against Sargent's.

1980-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 125,787.

District 1199 strikes nursing homes throughout the state, including homes in New Haven, Milford, and West Haven.

Frank Carrano elected president of the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council.

Charter issued to AFSCME Local 3144, the City of New Haven's management and professional employees.

1981-President Reagan fires the 11,500 Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) for striking against the U.S. Government.

UE strikes HARCO in Branford.

New Haven Central Labor Council members participate in Solidarity Day march in Washington, D.C.

1984-Local 34, Federation of University Employees, organizes clerical and technical workers at Yale and wages a 10 week strike, with picket line support from Local 35, Federation of University Employees, the service and maintenance workers union.

Food service workers, members of District 1199, strike at Yale-New Haven hospital.

1987-Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers, Local 33, engages in a five-day strike.

1988-A group of active and retired unionists, along with academics interested in the labor movement, form the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Jenny Alfano of the Shirtmakers Union and Amelia Spose of the ILGWU win the first Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On" Award presented by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Rubber workers strike at Armstrong Rubber.

1989-Mary Johnson of the teachers union and Mabel Batts of the Shirtmakers union win the Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On" Award presented by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Warren Gould chosen President of the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council.

Unfair Labor Practice strike begins at Circuit Wise, North Haven, by members of UE, Local 299.

Last shirt factory closes in the City of New Haven.

1990-U.S. Census sets New Haven population at 130,474.

Clair Pluff of the Office workers and Evelyn Webb of the Laundry workers win Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On" Award by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

1991-Dominic Furco of the printers and the office workers and Joe Millett of the Machinists win the Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On" Award presented by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Last dress shop closes in the City of New Haven.

Locals 34 and 35 stop work for one day in support of graduate student employees (Graduate Employees Student Employees Organization- GESO) efforts to unionize at Yale.

District 1199 strikes at Oak Hill School.

1992-William Henninger of the Ironworkers and Tom Pechinsky of Local 35, HERE win the Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On Award," presented by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 74, locked out at the Palace Theater.

District 1199 strikes the Winthrop Health Care Center for six months.

1993-John Dirzius of the American Postal Workers Union and Lois O'Connor of AFSCME win Augusta Lewis Troup "Pass It On" Award presented by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

1994-Circuit Wise workers' members of UE, Local 299, sign their first union contract, culminating a bitter five-year struggle for recognition.

1994-1995-Greater New Haven Labor History Association and the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council publish Labor Almanac.

NOTE

1. The information for this Chronology came from many sources. In compiling the Labor Almanac, we asked New Haven area unions to complete questionnaires about their histories. Not all the unions participated, but we did discover invaluable information from those unions that did complete the questionnaires.

I consulted the 1899 I11ustrated History of the Trades Council of New Haven and the 1939 Labor Digest, two previous works which the New Haven labor movement published, for additional facts.

The New Haven Public Library, has a bound edition of issues from the Industrial Newsletter, which was published monthly in the 1930s and the early 1940s by the Industrial Relations Club of New Haven. This is an invaluable resource for information about the tumultuous 1930s in New Haven.

I had previously researched New Haven's corset, shirt, and dress industries and applied much of that work to this Chronology.

Yale Professor David Montgomery and Yale graduate student Debbie Elkin provided important research advice, especially about the CIO in New Haven.

The book, New Haven: An Illustrated History. 1987. Shumway, E and Hegal, R., editors. Windsor Publications was the principal source for New Haven local history, especially the city's industrial history.

I have included some important state and national events in the Chronology, because of their impact upon the New Haven labor movement.

This Chronology does not include all the significant activities of the New Haven labor movement. I hope that people will contact me to report any deficiencies, so that future publications can make the appropriate corrections.