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Three hundred newsboys organize to protest a cut in pay by the Minneapolis Tribune - 1917 Legal secretary Iris Rivera fired for refusing to make coffee; secretaries across Chicago protest - 1977

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February 1

Led by 23-year-old Kate Mullaney, the Collar Laundry Union forms in Troy, N.Y., and raises earnings for female laundry workers from $2 to $14 a week - 1864

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January 30

Some 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas?mostly Latino women?walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts. Strike leader Emma Tenayuca was eventually hounded out of the state - 1938

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January 29

Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute - 1834

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January 28

American Miners? Association formed - 1861 First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin - 1932

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January 27

New York City maids organize to improve working conditions - 1734 Mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Pa., leaves more than 100 dead - 1891

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