In honor of the Labor Department’s 103rd birthday on March 4, here are some facts we bet you didn’t know. 1. President William Howard Taft signed the Organic Act creating the U.S. Department of Labor literally during his last few hours in office on March 4, 1913. Taft signed reluctantly, figuring incoming President Woodrow Wilson would create the department anyway. Labor organizations and advocates had been pushing for a seat at the president’s table for decades. That same day, President-elect Wilson and President Taft were photographed at the White House just before Wilson's inauguration...
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