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Mental Smuggler of the Industrial Revolution · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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He is the first to take what he's learned in that secret English
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textile water-powered mill and bring it to these Americans.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Monday, June 15th.
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he's really what others have called a mental smuggler.
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Um, again, not meant to be a compliment.
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That's from the manufacturing report on
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the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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The latest labor arts news and events Are available at laborheritage.org,
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In today's labor history on this date in 1990, the Battle of Century City took
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place as police in Los Angeles attacked some 500 janitors and their supporters
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during a peaceful Service Employees International Union demonstration
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against cleaning contractor ISS.
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The event generated public outrage that resulted in recognition of the workers'
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union and spurred the creation of an annual June 15th Justice for Janitors Day.
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Today's labor quote is by John Sweeney, who said, "The strategy of Justice for
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Janitors was to build a mass movement. The campaigns addressed the special
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needs of an immigrant workforce, largely from Latin America. In many cities, the
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janitors' cause became a civil rights movement and a cultural crusade."
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Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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More information at unionplus.org.
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This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.