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he wasn't even on strike at Aberly.
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He was just a sympathizer that was wanting to help out his comrades more.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Monday, July 6th.
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I hereby solemnly promise that I will continue the struggle against low
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wages, poverty, and in, and oppression, and that I will not falter nor be
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intimidated by hired assassins, nor discouraged by a subservient and oftimes
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tyrannical judiciary, that if necessary, we too will lay down our lives in
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order that all those who toil may be delivered from industrial enslavement
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That's from the Labor John Podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org
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In today's labor history on this date in
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1894, rail union leader Eugene Victor Debs was arrested during the Pullman Strike,
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described by The New York Times as, quote, "A struggle between the greatest and
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most important labor organization and the entire railroad capital that involved some
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two hundred and fifty thousand workers in twenty-seven states at its peak."
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Today's labor quote is by Gene Debs, who said, You are striking
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to avert slavery and degradation."
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Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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More information at unionplus.org.
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This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.