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Pushed Around for the Last Time · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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The Tarrant County voters have got their backs up.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, October 23rd.
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They've been pushed around as long as they're gonna be pushed around,
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and they are turning out as well or better than anybody in Texas.
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So it's a good day to be in Texas This is only the first step in
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stopping fascism in America.
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That's from The Workers Beat 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, In today's labor history on this date in 1825,
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after eight years and at least 1,000 worker deaths, mostly Irish immigrants,
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the 350-mile Erie Canal opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Today's labor quote is by Father John Raho, who wrote to his bishop
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about workers on the Erie Canal.
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"So many die that there is hardly any time to give extreme unction to everybody. We
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run night and day to assist the sick."
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More labor history, quotes, and arts are available on LHF's Labor Arts
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& Culture database at laborheritage.org.
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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.