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Heatstroke can hit anybody · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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I know, you know, we're all super tough,
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, July 14th.
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and we're, we're Teamsters, and we're truck drivers, and we can do anything,
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but the reality is that heatstroke can hit anybody, and it hits fast.
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That's from the Roswell Hub Podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org.
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On today's Labor Arts Calendar, the play Scab Muggers, a True Story: Tale
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of Fighting Back Against Sexism in the Labor Movement is on stage tonight
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at seven in Berkeley, California.
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Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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In today's labor history, the great railway strike of 1877 began
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in Martensberg, West Virginia after workers were hit with
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a second pay cut in one year.
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The walkout quickly spread across 17 states, prompting the federal government
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to deploy troops to suppress it.
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Today's labor quote is by Woody Guthrie, born on this date
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in 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma.
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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