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Let the People Speak · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  We have built out what we're calling the working people's vision for Philadelphia,
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  which is sort of our vision for if workers actually had more power than the
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  billionaires, this is what Philadelphia would feel like, would look like.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Monday, May 4th.
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  and it's beautiful, right?
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  Right?
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  It's unions for all.
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  It's safe homes and neighborhoods for everybody.
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  It's, one job should be enough, healthcare for everyone.
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  And on May day outside of, uh, City Hall and Philadelphia, we're
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  gonna have thousands of workers vote to ratify that vision.
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  And not just that, but we're willing together to fight for it,
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  right, and to make it a reality.
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  That's from The Working People Podcast on the Labor Radio podcast network.
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  Labor radio network.org.
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  Today's Labor Arts calendar and the latest labor arts News and events
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  are available@laborheritage.org.
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  in today's labor history.
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  On this date in 1886, the Haymarket Massacre took place when a bomb was
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  thrown as Chicago Police started to break up a rally for strikers at the
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  McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
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  A riot erupted in 11.
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  died mostly from gunfire, and scores were injured.
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  Today's labor quote is by Albert Parsons, one of four Chicago radical leaders,
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  controversially, convicted of conspiracy in the hay market, massacre, and hanged.
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  Albert Parsons, whose last words were let the people speak.
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  plus a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL CIO in 1986.
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  More information@unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network