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January 2:The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago in 1905. Known as "Wobblies," these advocates of revolutionary unionism believed that only by building "one big union" could the workers of the world combine to overthrow the management class. January 12:Novelist Jack London's birthday, in 1876. This excerpt is ascribed to the author: "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles." January 15:Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday, in 1929. In addition to his contribution to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, King was an earnest crusader for labor, particularly municipal and hospital workers. January 17:Ralph Chapin published the famous labor anthem "Solidarity Forever" in 1915.Click here for a list of Union Songs. January 26:The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America was born in 1897 when it received a charter from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to organize "every wage earner from the man who takes the bullock at the house until it goes into the hands of the consumer." The Meat Cutters merged with the January 27:Samuel Gompers, the first president of the AFL, was born in 1850 in London, England. He emigrated to the US as a youth. A cigarmaker by trade, Gompers received some of the education that shaped his approach to unionsim through his work on the shop floor. The core leadership of the trade union movement built in the 1880s came from similar groups of politicized workers.
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