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
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