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That’s What Unions Are Made For · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  it's supposed to be something that we give to our children to help, you know-
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  Right … build for a better future.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, November 11th.
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  Right on.
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  And, you know, we gotta stand for the change you wanna see, and if they don't
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  wanna work for us or, and with us- Right to build that future, we gotta
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  strike and stand for that, you know?
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  Right on.
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  'Cause that's what unions are made for.
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  Yeah.
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  You gotta love it.
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  Listen, we got all kinds of support.
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  Woo!
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  That's from My Labor Radio on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  are available at laborheritage.org,
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  free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1919, a confrontation between American
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  Legionnaires and Wobblies during an Armistice Day parade in Centralia,
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  Washington, resulted in six deaths.
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  One wobbly was reportedly tortured and lynched.
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  Local officials ruled his death a suicide
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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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  Today's labor quote is by August Spies, one of the Haymarket Martyrs
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  convicted in the bombing deaths of eight police during a Chicago labor
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  rally and hanged on this date in 1887.
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  " The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than
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  the voices you strangle today."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a non-profit 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