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The Workers Who Rode the Rails · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  so a hobo, is a migrant worker around the turn of the 20th century.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, October 29th.
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  They're permanently itinerant.
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  They don't have any place that they live.
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  They are just continuously roving, so walking or stealing
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  rides on the train, um, in order to get to their next workplace.
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  if you can think of an industry, hobos were probably doing a
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  substantial part of the work.
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  That's from the Labor Heritage Power Hour
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  today at one o'clock here on WPFW 89.3 FM On today's Labor Arts Calendar,
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  John Mitchell Day will be commemorated today in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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  And Mark Alice Duran's Confessions of a Working Class Artist is at
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  6:00 tonight in Baltimore, Maryland.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  where 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 1900, over 100,000 anthracite miners
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  returned to work after winning their great strike led by John Mitchell, who headed up
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  the United Mine Workers from 1898 to 1908.
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  October 29th is celebrated as John Mitchell Day in Scranton,
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  Pennsylvania, where a statue of Mitchell was erected in 1924.
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  More labor history quotes and arts are available on LHF's Labor Arts and
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  Culture Database at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by John Mitchell, who said, "This is a contest for
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  Americanism, for higher citizenship, for nobler manhood, for better homes."
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.