page_title: Timeline of labour issues and events
section_title: 1860s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of labour issues and events / 1800–99 / 1860s
caption_attribution_description: English: February 6, 1869 Illustration from Harper's Weekly of the Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C. Store Web page states: "from Harper's Weekly magazine with 6 x 9 [inch] wood-engraved illustration of the The National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C."
context_page_description: Timeline of trade union history
context_section_description: 1860 (United States)
  New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860
  800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts.
  1863 (United States)
  The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. It is headed by William D. Robinson.
  1864 (Europe)
  International Workingmen's Association (often called the First International) is founded.
  1864 (United States)
  Cigar Makers' Union founded.
  1864 July 21 (United States)
  Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association founded.
  1866 (United States)
  National Labor Union formed - 1st national labor federation in the US.
  1866 (United States)
  Molders' Lockout.
  1867 (United States)
  Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, a union for factory workers in the shoe industry, founded.
  1868 (Germany)
  The Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB)(Federation of General German Civil Servants) was founded and represented 142,000 workers.
  1868 (United States)
  First U.S. federal eight-hour law passed. This law only applied to laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by the U.S. federal government.
  1869 (United States)
  Colored National Labor Union founded.
  1869 (United States)
  Uriah Smith Stephens organized a new union known as the Knights of Labor.
  1869 (United States)
  Collar Laundry Union Strike in Troy, New York.
caption: February 6, 1869 Illustration from Harper's Weekly of the Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C. Store Web page states: "from Harper's Weekly magazine with 6 x 9 [inch] wood-engraved illustration of the National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C."
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