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Today in labor history: Palmer Raids victims win basic right

January 16, 2013 By Teresa Albano

Today in labor history, Jan. 16, 1920, thousands of immigrants, arrested during the vicious Palmer Raids, won a basic constitutional right: legal representation.

“Solidarity Forever” completed Jan. 15, 1915

January 15, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On January 15, 1915 in Chicago there was a big march on City Hall by some 1,500 jobless and hungry people demanding relief.

Today in labor history: 20,000 GE workers strike over health care

January 14, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On Jan. 14, 2003, nearly 20,000 General Electric workers went out on strike at 48 plants in 33 states.

Today in labor history: Bread and Roses strike

January 11, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1912 the "Bread and Roses" textile strike began in Lawrence, Mass.

Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway

January 9, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.