January 12

On this day in labor history, the year was 1932, a very unusual army marched on Washington, D.C.  Pro-labor Catholic Priest, Father James Renshaw Cox led the march from Pennsylvania to the Nation’s Capital to demand a public work’s program to put people back to work. 

For more information on Cox's March  

http://web.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-bin/?p=2153