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February 1

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

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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.

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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