January 19

Twenty strikers at the American Agricultural Chemical Co. in Roosevelt, N.J. were shot, two fatally, by factory guards. They and other strikers had stopped an incoming train in search of scabs when the guards opened fire - 1915 _Also on this date: 3,000 members of the Filipino Federation of Labor strike the plantations of Oahu, Hawaii; Yuba City, Calif. labor contractor Juan V. Corona found guilty of murdering 25 itinerant farm workers; Bruce Springsteen makes an unannounced appearance at a benefit for laid-off 3M workers_… Twenty strikers at the American Agricultural Chemical Co. in Roosevelt, N.J. were shot, two fatally, by factory guards. They and other strikers had stopped an incoming train in search of scabs when the guards opened fire - 1915
Also on this date: 3,000 members of the Filipino Federation of Labor strike the plantations of Oahu, Hawaii.  Yuba City, Calif. labor contractor Juan V. Corona found guilty of murdering 25 itinerant farm workers.  Bruce Springsteen makes an unannounced appearance at a benefit for laid-off 3M workers.More info & ammo for unionists is available
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