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Cargo Didn’t Move · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Cargo didn't move.
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  Couldn't get ice in the cities.
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  Couldn't get food.
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  Eventually, the strike spread all across throughout the major cities.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September 16th.
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  So the government deployed troops.
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  They sent soldiers to all the major cities.
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  Soldiers started riding on trains, essentially forcing the trains to
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  run, forcing employees to work.
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  And, um, over time, the strike gradually came to an end at the point of a bayonet,
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  That's from Engage, the podcast for Delta pilots on the Labor Radio
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  Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's labor arts calendar, Joe Uline will conduct a labor music
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  ecology concert and book signing at 6:30 tonight in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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 on this date in 1945, more than 43,000 oil workers
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  went out on strike in 20 states, part of the post-war strike wave.
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  Today's labor quote is by Richard Trumka, elected president of the
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  AFL-CIO on this date in 2009.
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  Richard Trumka, who said, "There is nothing stronger than the American
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  labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside."
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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.