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    :: Saturday, December 25, 2004 ::

    Santas wanted to unionize in 1960s CNN.com
    Union power may have been on the wane for some time now but at the height of the people power movement in the 1960s even Santa Claus wanted to join a union.

    Records released on Thursday by the National Archive -- the guardian of Britain's collective memory -- showed a bid in 1968 to set up the Brotherhood of Father Christmas and Santa Claus Union.
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