January 4, 1909 – The ITGWU was founded on this
date in Dublin. Many of the founding members came from the socialist movement
or from the IWW.(From the Daily Bleed)
January 4, 1932 – At the height of the Great Depression,
a U.S. Senate subcommittee considered providing unemployment relief after
hearing speakers describe people living in the street, starving, and foraging
through garbage dumps for scraps. One speaker, the director of the Children’s
Bureau of Philadelphia told the committee, "They do not die quickly. You
can starve for a long time without dying." (From Workday
Minnesota)
January 4, 1933 – Angered by increasing farm
foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threatened to lynch
banking representatives and law officials who instituted foreclosure
proceedings for the duration of the Depression. In April, 600 farmers battled
the sheriff and his deputies to prevent a foreclosure. A group of farmers
dragged a district judge from his chair, put a rope around his neck, and
threaten to hang him unless he promised not to issue any more eviction notices.
That same month, state officers in Crawford County were beaten, prompting the
Iowa governor to declare martial law in three counties and send in the National
Guard. (From theDaily
Bleed)
January 4, 1960 – United Steel workers ended a
strike that had begun on July 15, 1959.
January 4, 1961 – The longest recorded strike
in history ended after 33 years when Danish barbers' assistants returned to
work in Copenhagen.
January 4, 1976 – A wave of wildcat strikes
began on this date in Spain, involving more than 500,000 workers are involved.
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