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Right at Home in the Union Hall · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Grew up in this environment.
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  I really feel right at home here in the union hall.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, October 20th.
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  Just really grew up understanding the importance of worker dignity,
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  fairness, good jobs, good union contracts, and I'm honored to be in
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  this position in City Hall to be able to support our amazing city workers.
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  That's from the Worker Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1926, Eugene Victor Debs, US labor leader
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  and socialist, died in Elmhurst, Illinois.
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  Among his, quote-unquote, "radical ideas," an eight-hour workday, pensions, workman's
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  comp, sick leave, and social security.
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  Debs ran for president from a jail cell in 1920 and got a million votes.
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  More labor history, quotes, and arts are available on LHF's Labor Arts and
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  Culture database at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Gene Debs, who said, "I am opposing a social
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  order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing
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  that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while
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  millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure
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  Barely enough for a wretched existence.
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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