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January 31

12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Tex. ? mostly Latino women ? walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts.

January 31

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January 29

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

January 29

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January 26

In what could be considered the first workers? compensation agreement in America, pirate Henry Morgan pledges his underlings 600 pieces of eight or six slaves to compensate for a lost arm or leg.

January 26