Today’s show is from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, the podcast from the Labour Heritage Centre in British Columbia. One hundred years ago on Valentine's Day, 1921, a group of courageous public school teachers in New Westminster, British Columbia -- -- most of them young women -- defiantly took a stand…PLUS: On Labor History in 2:00: Kansas City Laundresses Walk Off the Job.
Produced/edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 80 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961 (Encore)
Woody’s resolutions
”Please Buy My Last Paper, I Want to Go Home”
Bayard Rustin, leader and lover
Capital’s Terrorists
Woody’s ”1913 Massacre”
A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
Labor history, justice, and Jesuits
The Leadville Irish Miners’ Memorial
Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA
Under the Iron Heel: Repressing the IWW and free speech
How matchgirls sparked the British labour movement
Who “Oppenheimer” left out
The Triangle Fire: A new memorial, and ”Scenes from a Prosecution”
Weapons of the Boss
Voices of Guinness (Encore)
“The Port of Missing Men” (Encore)
The labor “Parade” that flopped (Encore)
The Irish Immigrant Miners’ Memorial (Encore)
Colorado’s lost strike song
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