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“The Usual Issues” · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  And it's called the most successful because all the coal miners in
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  the state walked out, and because when the strike was over, they
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  actually won most of their demands.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September 9th.
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  He and some other Wobblies managed to, both organize and kinda take hold of this
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  strike here in Colorado, which was, again, was a coal strike, over the usual issues-
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  Of, a combination of, an organizing strike and a strike over wages and,
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  and working conditions, which needless to say in coal mining back then were,
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  were pretty, uh, were pretty terrible.
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  That's from The Labor Exchange on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org, where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage
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  Foundation's free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1924, 16 striking Filipino sugar
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  workers and four police officers were killed during a labor conflict on Kauai.
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  Surviving strikers were jailed and deported.
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  You can discover these stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Frederick Douglass, who said, "The limits
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  of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.