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John Wolken 1884 - 1974

John Wolken of Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota was born on September 11, 1884, and died at age 89 years old in April 1974.

John Wolken

Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota 57701

September 11, 1884

April 1974

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In 1884, in the year that John Wolken 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 1892, he was merely 8 years old when on August 4th, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered. Lizzie was accused of the crime and on June 20th of the next year, she was acquitted of murder by a jury. But she was never acquitted in the public mind.

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