David Byrne called him "the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh." The Steel Workers’Solidarity Works podcast talks with two of their union’s members who are dedicating their time and expertise to saving the historic murals of Croatian painter and immigrant Maxo Vanka, which cover the walls of the St. Nicholas Croatian Church in Pittsburgh, and which depict themes of social justice, immigration and the heartbreak of love, loss and war.
On this week’s Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1908. That was the day the U. S. Supreme Court ruled on the Lowe vs. Lawler case, also known as the Danbury Hatters case.
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Black labor in Richmond
The Irish Immigrant Miners’ Memorial
City Workers Strike Song
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The Bread Uprising
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Striketober & The Great Resignation: Take this job and shove it!
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Founding the American Federation of Labor
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Tom Morello holds the line
Communists and community in wartime Detroit
From the Necropolis Strike to Striketober
Voices of Guinness
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