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The Past Has Work to Do · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  we think that it makes it all the more important politically that labor
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  historians be working to help people see that the past is connected to the present,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, October 5th.
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  that labor history can teach us a lot of things, can illuminate
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  the present, can help us think about the present in new ways.
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  That's from the Working History 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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  In today's labor history on this date in 1945, A strike by set decorators turns
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  into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California
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  when scabs try to cross the picket line.
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  The incident is still identified as Hollywood Black Friday
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  and the Battle of Burbank.
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  Today's labor quote is by Polish Solidarity Union founder Lech
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  Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on this date in 1983.
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  Finally, we have an independent union under our own administration.
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  We now have the right to strike, and we are going to demand more rights soon.
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  More labor history, quotes, and arts are available in 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.