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The Song Just Built and Built · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  We started performing the song.
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  We started getting extra verses.
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  It just built, and built, and built.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, September 10th.
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  So every year, you have this ceremony at Ralph Chaplin's grave.
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  H- And when Ralph passed away, Tiny Tronson, for years and years, all by
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  himself, would come down here to his grave site on his birthday and commemorate
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  him, And then we started asking more people, and we started singing the song.
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  That's from the Labor Heritage Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  today, right here on WPFW 89.3 FM.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, Jennifer Greenberg discusses labor,
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  militarism, and economic conversion at their virtual Reed Fink lecture.
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  In Hawaii, an evening program explores the Hanapepe Massacre
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  and labor leader Pablo Manlapit.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at
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  laborheritage.org, In today's labor history on this date in 1897, sheriff's
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  deputies opened fire on unarmed Polish, Lithuanian, and Slovak miners peacefully
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  marching in Latimer, Pennsylvania, killing 19 and wounding more than 50.
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  Many were shot in the back.
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  Today's labor quote is by Jonathan Swift, who said, "I never wonder
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  to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
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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.