On this date in ...

1918: A group of 12 young men between the ages of 16 and 18 entered the juvenile department of the State Employment Bureau looking for jobs. All had been employed at Rathbone, Sard & Co. on North Ferry Street but had quit together when one of them was fired and the rest couldn’t stand for it. Anna Boochever, who was in charge of the department, said she had one job for $8 a week. This prompted laughter from the youths who claimed the pay was too small. One of them shouted, “I’m sorry I ever left my trade for that job.”

1968: More than 3,500 employees of General Electric Co.’s large steam generator turbine department voted unanimously to go on a two-day strike over a long-standing safety grievance. GE warned that further stoppages “must inevitably lead to additional layoffs.” A union spokesman said there was “no rhyme or reason for the layoff notices from the company” and claimed the company’s action in part was “covering up last week’s explosion.” The strike began with the first shift today and would end with the start of the first shift Sept. 26. There was to be no picketing.

1993: The tough-talking mayor of Auburn threatened to arrest and jail members of an Albanybased “anti-fascist” group if they attempted to disrupt a march by white supremacists through the city center. “If those people are intent to come to Auburn and create trouble, they may be staying long beyond Saturday in county jail,” said Guy Thomas Cosentino, the brash young mayor of the city of 32,000, about a 30 minute drive from Syracuse. The United States of America Nationalist Party planned to march from city hall to a local newspaper office in Cayuga County, while one Albany coalition member, Susan Ryan, promised to “physically persuade the fascists from marching.”