Latest / Labor Radio-Podcast Daily / If they come for one
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- 0:02if they're gonna come for one, they're eventually gonna come for all.
- 0:05This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, June 22nd.
- 0:10And, you know, it's not just gonna stop there.
- 0:13It may just be an us problem now, but it's gonna eventually
- 0:16become everyone else's problem.
- 0:18That's from the Next Generation Carriers
- 0:24podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:28Details on today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events
- 0:33are available at laborheritage.org,
- 0:37where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
- 0:40free weekly newsletter.
- 0:43In today's labor history on this date in 1922, violence erupted during a
- 0:49coal mine strike in Herrin, Illinois.
- 0:52Thirty-six were killed.
- 0:54Twenty-one of them were non-union miners.
- 0:57Discover the stories where they happened.
- 0:59The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
- 1:05Today's labor quote is by John L. Lewis, who said, "The union miner cannot agree
- 1:11to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings
- 1:16and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom
- 1:21the non-union operators can employ."
- 1:24Support for the Labor Radio Podcast daily comes from Union
- 1:28Plus, a non-profit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
- 1:34More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:38This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network