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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

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January 10

In what is described as the worst industrial disaster in state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapses, trapping 900 workers, mostly Irish women.

January 10

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January 9

A Mediation Commission appointed by President Woodrow Wilson finds that "industry?s failure to deal with unions" is the prime reason for labor strife in war industries - 1918

January 9