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- 0:02I can't be a dad.
- 0:03I can't be a, uh, a lineman.
- 0:05I can't do work, 'cause now I'm gonna go through this medical crap again.
- 0:08Like, I'm, I'm useless.
- 0:09I'm just a piece of
- 0:11all that stuff.
- 0:12This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, October 2nd.
- 0:17And your vision goes narrow, and then you're looking for an escape,
- 0:21and then that escape is that pistol.
- 0:23That's from the Powerline podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
- 0:28network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:30On this weekend's Labor Arts Calendar, The Great American Postal Heist screens
- 0:34tonight at 7:30 PM in Rochester, New York.
- 0:38Tomorrow, Saturday at 3:00 PM Central, a concert in Staunton, Illinois
- 0:43celebrates Mother Jones, Miner's Day, and the Union Miners Cemetery.
- 0:47And then Sunday at 6:00 Eastern, the AFT hosts an online conversation
- 0:52with author Jason Reynolds.
- 0:54Details and more labor arts news and events at laborheritage.org, In
- 1:00today's labor history, on this date in 1934, the American Federation of Labor
- 1:05officially endorsed the campaign for a six-hour day and a five-day work week.
- 1:11Today's labor quote is by Eleanor Smeal: "Thank God none of us know our place, and
- 1:17that the fight for equality and justice and workers' rights continues to go on.
- 1:22We are fueled daily by those who would take advantage of unorganized people
- 1:27without the strength of solidarity."
- 1:29More labor history quotes and arts is available in the LHF's Labor Arts and
- 1:35Culture database at laborheritage.org.
- 1:39Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
- 1:42Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
- 1:48More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:52This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.
- 1:57Have a great weekend.