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The Lifeguard’s First Job · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Cool people, cool jobs.
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  Lifeguarding is probably 85% prevention.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, September 14th.
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  So, you know, we, we don't wanna make the rescue.
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  We wanna keep you safe so that that doesn't happen.
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  But ocean conditions being what they are on some days, um, no matter what
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  you do, we're gonna have rescues.
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  That's from the Project Labor
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  podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts Calendar, Joe Uline will do a concert and book
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  signing for his new book, Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, tonight at
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  5:00 PM in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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  Details and the latest labor arts, news, and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org.
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  Or you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
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  free weekly newsletter
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1929, textile striker and
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  songwriter Ella Mae Wiggins, a 29-year-old mother of nine, was murdered
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  near Gastonia, North Carolina, when anti-union vigilantes forced her
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  truck off the road and opened fire.
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  Today's labor quote is by Ella Mae Wiggins from her song The Mill Mother's
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  Lament, sung here by Dawn Landes.
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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.