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Lertie West 1884 - 1972

Lertie West of Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan was born on September 23, 1884, and died at age 87 years old in July 1972.

Lertie West
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Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan 48230
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September 23, 1884
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In 1884, in the year that Lertie West 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 1895, at the age of merely 11 years old, Lertie was alive when on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
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Smith, Louise (Born Aug 7, 1914) West, Imogene West, Harty Gay (Born Dec 12, 1882) West, Jessie (Born 1872) West, Emmett (Born Nov 4, 1884) West, Louella (Born Jan 1988) West, Guy (Born Mar 13, 1879) West, Willa A (Born May 12, 1881) West, John (Born 1879) West, Denver (Born 1898)
West, Charles (Born Dec 18, 1876) West, West, Frederick West, Myra West, Walter (Born Jul 1887) West, Lessee (Born 1867) West, Robert (Born 1866) West, Hugh (Born 1897) West, Sophia (Born 1895) West, Cora (Born Jan 19, 1894)
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