The eight-hour work day didn’t come easy. It took people who were willing to stand up and fight for it.

It took unions of workers who were ready to face the rifles of militiamen and refuse to go home. It took people who were willing to spill their blood and give their own lives to make the United States a place where a family could get by without sending their children off to work in the factories.

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