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Dorthula Cole 1884 - 1977

Dorthula Cole of Fairdale, Jefferson County, Kentucky was born on August 25, 1884, and died at age 92 years old in February 1977.
Dorthula Cole
Fairdale, Jefferson County, Kentucky 40118
August 25, 1884
February 1977
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Dorthula Cole's History: 1884 - 1977

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    1884

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    August 25, 1884
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  • 02/dd
    1977

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    February 1977
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In 1884, in the year that Dorthula Cole was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1911, when this person was 27 years old, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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