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Gloria Johnson’s Promise · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Gloria Johnson, who was the third president of the Coalition of Labor
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  Union Women, told the story about how when she was pregnant, um, she
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  went to the labor, her husband took her to the hospital and dropped her
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  off and then went to park her car.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Thursday, March 12th.
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  And she went in and they put her in a bed and then the nurse came
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  in and said, girl, is you colored?
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  They took her out of the bed when she was in labor and moved her to the colored
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  section because when her husband came in, they realized she must have been black.
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  She said, I promise that my daughter or no other daughter would ever have to go
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  through anything like that ever again.
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  That's Elise Bryant on a special International Women's Day
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  edition of the Labor Heritage Power Hour one o'clock today
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  here on WPFW 89.3 FM
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  on the Labor Radio podcast network.
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  in today's labor history.
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  On this data, 1912, the Lawrence Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile
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  strike ended when the American Woolen Company agreed to most of
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  the striker's demands other textile companies quickly followed suit.
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  Today's labor court is by Roche Schneiderman, who said The worker must
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  have bread, but she must have roses too.
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  The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is supported by our friends at Union Plus.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.