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October 10

Six days into a cotton field strike by 18,000 Mexican and Mexican-American workers in Pixley, Calif., four strikers are killed and six wounded; eight growers were indicted and charged with murder - 1933

October 10

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October 9

Retail stock brokerage Smith Barney reaches a tentative sexual harassment settlement with a group of female employees.

October 9

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October 8

In Poland, the union Solidarity and all other labor organizations are banned by the government - 1982

October 8

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October 6

Thirty-two thousand machinists begin what is to be a successful 69-day strike against the Boeing Co.

October 6

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October 5

2,100 supermarket janitors in California, mostly from Mexico, win a $22.4 million settlement over unpaid overtime.

October 5