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On this day in Labor History

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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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