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Labor History Today

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Gripping stories of the historic battles for worker rights and how they fuel today’s struggles. Part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network: #LaborRadioPod

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30:57

Colorado’s lost strike song

Labor History Today ·

2023/09/10

The story of how a popular labor song was lost, and then found. From The Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor focused radio show, airing on KGNU Community Radio, Mondays at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Questions, comments, and suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass

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33:33

Brecher’s “Strike!”

Labor History Today ·

2023/09/03

Part 1 of our 2018 interview with Jeremy Brecher, the historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements, including the classic book Strike! Plus: Patrick Dixon talks with history professor Sarah Rose about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the complex history of disability and work. Jordan Biscardo, communications director at the Seafarers Union, tells us about the 1946 general strike that shut down the U.S. maritime industry. And our labor history

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34:53

“The waterfront is my life”

Labor History Today ·

2023/08/27

The story of Cleophas Williams, the first African American president of Local 10 of the ILWU, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Thanks to WBAI’s Building Bridges radio show, where a longer version of this originally appeared. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Packers. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the

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19:14

Debs’ radio station

Labor History Today ·

2023/08/20

Filmmaker Yale Strom ("American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs") remembers WEVD, the Chicago radio station named for labor leader Eugene Victor Debs; Dan Duncan celebrates the founding of the AFL-CIO’s Maritime Trades Department; Saul Schniderman marks the anniversary of the publication of the IWW’s "Little Red Song Book," and Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week. This show was originally released August 12, 2018. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to

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32:13

The union archive that almost didn’t make it

Labor History Today ·

2023/08/13

The story of how the International Woodworkers of America Archive began, was almost lost, and continues to preserve the records of what was once British Columbia's largest and most powerful union. Today’s report comes from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Singing a union tune. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced

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38:57

Coit Tower’s New Deal Murals

Labor History Today ·

2023/08/06

From 1935 to 1943 the Federal Art Project -- a project of the Works Progress Administration, or WPA-- employed some 10,000 artists and craft workers, helping them survive the Great Depression. The artists created hundreds of thousands of visual arts: paintings, murals, prints, posters, and renderings. Many of them survive to this day, but you have to know where to look for them. That’s why LHT host Chris Garlock found himself on Telegraph Hill yesterday, during a visit to San Francisco, meeting

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48:19

Who Killed Frank Little?

Labor History Today ·

2023/07/30

The Death In The West podcast re-opens the case of Frank Little, a union organizer whose brutal unsolved murder shocked the nation during the tumultuous summer of 1917. Features Frank Little, a brand-new song from the R.J. Phillips Band. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1970. That was the day the United Farm Workers, led by Cesar Chavez, signed their first union contract in California. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of

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44:52

Life and Times of a Black Wobbly

Labor History Today ·

2023/07/23

Ben Fletcher was one of the most important black labor leaders in American history. Yet he’s almost entirely unknown. In today’s show, from the Working Class History podcast, we learn about this little-known dock worker and labor organizer, who helped organize thousands of workers on the Philadelphia docks into the most powerful multiracial union in the country. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us

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55:51

The Port Chicago Mutiny (Encore)

Labor History Today ·

2023/07/16

On July 17, 1944, two ammunition ships exploded at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny. Today, the disaster and its aftermath are memorialized at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, one

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29:56

The Disney Revolt

Labor History Today ·

2023/07/09

Among those turning out to support the strike by Hollywood writers -- now in its 10th week-- have been members of the Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839); back in March, the animators staged a “solidarity walk” around Walt Disney Studios in Burbank with dozens of the studio’s animation production workers protesting Disney’s refusal to voluntarily recognize its unionization efforts. Those who know their Hollywood labor history will have recognized the echoes of another Hollywood strike, the 1941

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35:16

Under The Iron Heel

Labor History Today ·

2023/07/02

University of Colorado law professor Ahmed White discusses his new book on the Industrial Workers of the World, “Under The Iron Heel – The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.” Today’s show is the first of a 3-part interview with White on Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor-focused radio show, airing Mondays at 6:00 PM Mountain Time on KGNU Community Radio in Boulder, Colorado. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1998. If you were trying to drive to work on that

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31:22

MoJo’s March of the Mill Children; Remembering Harry...

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/25

They had banners demanding "We want to go to school and not the mines!" and held rallies each night in a new town. This was the famous "March of the Mill Children" in June, 1903, led by Mother Jones, from Kensington, Philadelphia, to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House in Oyster Bay, New York. The Labor Jawn podcast reports. Harry Belafonte was not only an acclaimed actor and singer but an important fighter against racism and militarism. Work Week Radio’s Steve Zeltzer talks with

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26:52

The 1943 RJ Reynolds Strike

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/18

Ten thousand workers cross the color line to shut down the largest tobacco manufacturing plant in the South and win a union. From the “NC Labor History Revealed” podcast, with music from the Love Songs from the Liberation Wars labor jazz opera. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1903. Mary Harris -- better known as “Mother” Jones -- held a rally in Philadelphia, The March of the Mill Children. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of

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22:39

Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/11

A chat with Owen Smith, who’s directing “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!”Saturday, June 17 at the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, New York; the musical tells the story of the 1864 Troy Collar Laundry Union Strike. The Kate Mullany National Historic Site opened on June 10; Mullany organized the Troy Collar Laundry Union, the nation's first all-female union. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The day Consumers Power Company employees near Flint, Michigan shut off generators and turbines at the

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16:19

Democracy Under Siege

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/08

Pod Extra: Bill Fletcher Jr. on Resisting Tyranny Through a 21st Century Labor Movement at the 12th annual conference of the Labor Research and Action Network. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP

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02:00

A white-collar strike

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/06

The Worker’s Mic talks with Writers Guild supporters at a Chicago rally. Today’s labor quote: The Labor Party. Today’s labor history: Autoworkers stage general strike in Lansing. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WGAWest #WGAstrike #WGAStrong #WGA @UFWupdates @coalition_labor Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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21:10

Detroit’s Walk to Freedom

Labor History Today ·

2023/06/04

Labor journalist David Elsila remembers the 1963 March for Freedom in Detroit, Michigan, "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date, featuring Martin Luther King’s first draft of his “I Have a Dream” speech, written at Solidarity House, the United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit. NOTE: The Michigan Labor History Society will host a commemoration of the March on Wednesday, June 7 at the UAW Local 22 Union Hall, 4300 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI. On this

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29:44

Trumka on the power of labor arts

Labor History Today ·

2023/05/28

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka spoke passionately about the key role of labor arts in the labor movement at the Great Labor Arts Exchange in 2009; he died in 2021 but we’ll hear his voice again on today’s show (the 40th gathering of GLAE will take place June 15 through 18 at the Maritime Conference Center and Hotel, in Linthicum Heights, Maryland). On this week’s Labor History in Two: 50,000 striking rubber workers end their 5-day walkout in Akron, Ohio. Questions, comments, or suggestions

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32:13

The Memorial Day Massacre

Labor History Today ·

2023/05/21

Greg Mitchell and Lyn Goldfarb discuss their new film Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried, which explores a largely forgotten episode in labor--and media—history. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1937. That was the day that workers at the Jones and Laughlin plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania voted in the first ever union election in the United States’ steel industry under the National Labor Relations Board. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out

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36:22

Mackay, Wurf, library workers, Matewan and the first...

Labor History Today ·

2023/05/14

On this week's show (originally posted 5/13/2018): Labor historian Joe McCartin discusses the 1938 U.S. Supreme Court’s Mackay decision, which permits the permanent replacement of striking workers; Joe says this obscure decision was in fact a “ticking time bomb” that would go off to devastating effect more than 40 years later, when Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981, giving employers across the country a green light for union-busting. PLUS: Joe Hower on how Jerry Wurf

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