January 02

 Conference of 23 industrial unionists in Chicago leads to formation of IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as Wobblies - 1905
 
Also on this date: In what became known as Palmer Raids, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign-born labor agitators…An underground explosion at Sago Mine in Tallmansville, W. Va., traps 12 miners and cuts power to the mine

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