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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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January 12

Novelist Jack London is born. His classic definition of a scab?someone who would cross a picketline 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.

January 12

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January 11

The IWW-organized ?Bread & Roses? textile strike of 32,000 women and children begins in Lawrence, Mass.

January 11