In our first segment, Woody Guthrie Center Director Cady Shaw on the story behind Woody Guthrie’s song "1913 Massacre". Check out the video here.
Then, Central Oregonizing, Radical Songbook podcast host Michael Funke’s brief history of unions at sawmills in Bend, Oregon from 1916 to 2000. Check out the video here.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1951; that was the day New York City was struck by the Great Bagel Famine.
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Connecting the ACLU, NRA and IWW
“Changing Lives, Changing L.A.”
B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman
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Mingo, Matewan and the Coal Wars of West Virginia
The myth of “highly paid” Alabama auto workers
Art Shields: The People’s Scribe
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MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961 (Encore)
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