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On this day in Labor History

January 4, 1933
Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933
October 3, 1932
The state militia is called in after 164 high school students in Kincaid, Ill. go on strike when the school board buys coal from the scab Peabody Coal Co. - 1932
September 12, 1932
Jobless workers march on grocery stores and seize food in Toledo, Ohio - 1932
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