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An Undercover Agent Among Them · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  there was apparently an undercover agent among them pretending
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  to be a construction worker
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September third.
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  who was trying to bait people by offering to, quote, "build items
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  that might assist with more," quote, "direct action"- and that, quote,
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  "going to jail did not bother him,"
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  That's from the Labor Notes podcast 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
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  are available at laborheritage.org,
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  where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
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  free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history on this date in nineteen twenty-one, mine
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  owners bombed West Virginia strikers by plane using homemade bombs filled
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  with nails and metal fragments.
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  The bombs missed their targets or failed to explode.
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  You can discover these stories where they happen.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Dwight David Eisenhower, who said, "Today in
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  America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of
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  reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving
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  working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union Plus, a
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  nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in nineteen eighty-six.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.