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January 16

The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect - 1883

January 16

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January 15

Wobbly Ralph Chaplin, in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger, completes the writing of the labor anthem ?Solidarity Forever? on this date in 1915.

January 15

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January 14

Clinton-era OSHA issues confined spaces standard to prevent more than 50 deaths and 5,000 serious injuries annually for workers who enter confined spaces - 1993

January 14

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January13

The original Tompkins Square Riot. As unemployed workers demonstrated in New York's Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children with billy clubs.

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January 05

The nation?s first black labor convention was held in Washington, D.C., with 214 delegates forming the Colored National Labor Union - 1869

January 05

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January 04

Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives

January 04