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Bloody Friday Lives On · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  it was awful from everything that I've read.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, July 20th.
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  in the factories they didn't have plumbing.
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  They're working with all these different chemicals and whatnot
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  in the textile factories, and it's dusty and they're coming home, or at
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  least during there, getting covered in dirt and chemicals and stuff.
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  They didn't have protective gear.
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  The foremen were very, what's the word I'm looking for, very unkind
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  to them is a nice way to put it.
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  That's from the Green and Red podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Details on today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org, where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage
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  Foundation's free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1934, two were killed and 67
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  wounded in the Minneapolis truckers' strike known as Bloody Friday.
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  You can discover the stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by David Reel, who said, "Bloody Friday really
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  was one of the battles that ignited the struggle for unionization that
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  unfolded throughout the 1930s."
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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.