January 4

Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933

What many believe to be the longest strike in modern history, by Danish barbers’ assistants, ends after 33 years - 1961

Eight thousand New York City social workers strike, demand better conditions for welfare recipients - 1965

Legendary Transport Workers Union leader Mike Quill, other TWU leaders are jailed for violating anti-strike court injunction in four-day-old New York City transit walkout involving 35,000 members. A settlement was reached January 13 - 1966

United Paperworkers International Union merges with Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union to form Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers International Union, itself later to merge with the Steelworkers - 1999

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