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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 10:02 AM
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Today in labor history Jan 19, 20 rioting strikers were shot by factory guards / Joe Hill arrested
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January 19

Twenty rioting strikers were shot by factory guards at Roosevelt, N.J. - 1915

January 19, 1915 - World famous labor leader Joe Hill was arrested in Salt Lake City. He was convicted on trumped-up murder charges and executed 21 months later despite worldwide protests and two attempts to intervene by President Woodrow Wilson.

3,000 members of the Filipino Federation of Labor strike the plantations of Oahu, Hawaii. Their ranks swell to 8,300 as they are joined by members of the Japanese Federation of Labor - 1920

Bruce Springsteen makes an unannounced appearance at a benefit for laid-off 3M workers, Asbury Park, NJ - 1986

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