January 03

The ship Thetis arrives in Hawaii with 175 Chinese field workers bound to serve for five years at $3 per month - 1852
 
Also on this date: Wobblie Tom Mooney tried in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing…500 farmers, black and white, their crops ruined by a long drought, march into downtown England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families, warning they would take it by force if necessary…The Supreme Court rules against the closed shop…AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development employees are assassinated in El Salvador

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