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January 13

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. Declared Abram Duryee, the Commissioner of Police: "It was the most glorious sight I ever saw..." - 1874

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January 12

Novelist Jack London is born. His classic definition of a scab?someone who would cross a picket line and take a striker's job: "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles" - 1876

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January 11

The IWW-organized ?Bread & Roses? textile strike of 32,000 women and children begins in Lawrence, Mass. It lasted 10 weeks and ended in victory. The first millworkers to walk out were Polish women, who, upon collecting their pay, exclaimed that they had been cheated and promptly abandoned their looms - 1912

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December 27

President Roosevelt seizes the railroads to avert a nationwide strike. His decision to temporarily place the railroads under the ?supervision? of the War Department prompts the five railroad brotherhoods to agree to his offer to arbitrate the wage dispute - 1943

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December 26

Knights of Labor founded. Constitution bars from membership ?parasites,? including stockbrokers and lawyers - 1869

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December 25

A dynamite bomb destroys a portion of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles, where a bitter strike was in progress ? 1910

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