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Look at Their Records · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  One of the things I, I tell voters at the doors all the time is, "Don't
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  listen to what politicians say.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, October 27th.
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  Look at their records.
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  Look at what they do." Mm. And so I'm, I'm proud.
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  I'm proud of my record.
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  I'm proud to support labor, not just in my words at election
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  time, but when it matters, when I cast my votes on the House floor.
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  That's from the Heartland Labor Forum 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 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 1951, the National Negro Labor
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  Council was founded in Cincinnati to fight for Black workers' equality,
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  pushing many AFL and CIO unions to adopt non-discrimination policies
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  before disbanding five years later.
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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 Booker T. Washington.
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  "Shall the labor unions use their influence to deprive the Black man
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  of his opportunity to labor, or unite with those who want to give every man,
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  regardless of color, race, or creed, what Colonel Roosevelt calls the
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  Square Deal in the matters of labor?"
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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.