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- 0:02A hundred fill a hall.
- 0:05A thousand have solidarity and your own news network.
- 0:0910,000, your own paper.
- 0:11100,000, your own media.
- 0:1310 million, your own country.
- 0:16It goes one at a time.
- 0:18This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, June 25th.
- 0:25To go back.
- 0:27They marched through the fire.
- 0:29They marched through fear.
- 0:31They marched through closed doors and opened them anyway.
- 0:35That's from the Labor Heritage Power Hour right here on WPFW at 1:00 this
- 0:41afternoon on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:48In today's labor history on this date in 1941,
- 0:53at the urging of Black labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph,
- 0:57President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order barring
- 1:01discrimination in defense industries.
- 1:05Today's labor quote is from the Taft-Hartley song,
- 1:08sung here by Charlie King.
- 1:11Congress overrode President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker
- 1:16Taft-Hartley Act on June 23rd, 1947.
- 1:35Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
- 1:39Plus, a non-profit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
- 1:45More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:49This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.