January
| January 1, 1994 |
North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect. |
| January 3, 1955 |
U.S. government announces more than 3,000 government workers fired
form June 1953 - October 1954, the height of the "McCarthy
witch hunts"; none prosecuted. |
| January 4, 1960 |
United Steelworkers end longest steel strike in U.S., started July
15, 1959. |
| January 6, 1869 |
First African-American labor convention. |
| January 10, 2000 |
Denver labor activists rally at the state capitol. |
| January 12, 1928 |
Police raid IWW hall in Walsenberg, Colorado. |
| January 15, 1929 |
Martin Luther King Jr. is born. |
| January 15, 1962 |
Federal employees gain the right to collectively bargain under
President Kennedy. |
| January 17, 1915 |
Ralph Chaplin writes "Solidarity Forever." |
| January 19, 1915 |
Joe Hill, facing execution, writes "Don't Mourn, Organize." |
| January 20, 1920 |
U.S. Attorney General Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign born labor agitators;
500 later deported in what comes to be known as the "Palmer Raids." |
| January 22, 1849 |
Terrance Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor, born. |
| January 25, 1890 |
UMWA founded |
| January 25, 1851 |
Sojourner Truth addresses 1st African American Women's Rights convention. |
| January 27, 1850 |
Samuel Gompers, long-term AFL president born. |
| January 29, 1882 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt born. |
| January 31, 1938 |
In San Antonio, TX, 12,000 pecan shellers, mostly Hispanic women,
walk off the job. |
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