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“Solidarity Forever” completed Jan. 15, 1915
January 15, 2013On January 15, 1915 in Chicago there was a big march on City Hall by some 1,500 jobless and hungry people demanding relief.
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Today in labor history: 20,000 GE workers strike over health care
January 14, 2013On Jan. 14, 2003, nearly 20,000 General Electric workers went out on strike at 48 plants in 33 states.
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Today in labor history: Bread and Roses strike
January 11, 2013On this day in 1912 the "Bread and Roses" textile strike began in Lawrence, Mass.
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People’s World sports writer honored by public TV
January 10, 2013When he is not doing journalism and community media Neil teaches history at a local junior high school, reads comic books and spends time with his girlfriend, Lisa.
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Seeing Red: Huffington Post debates Communist influence in U.S.
January 10, 2013Is communism still relevant to American politics?
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Today in Labor History: Greed and the Pemberton Mill disaster
January 10, 2013In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children
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Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway
January 9, 2013On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.
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Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising
January 8, 2013The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.
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