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Labor History in 2:00

Labor History in 2:00

By: The Rick Smith Show
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A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.Copyright 2014 . All rights reserved. World
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  • May 20 - Steel’s First Union Vote

    May 20 - Steel’s First Union Vote
    May 20 2026

    Today in Labor History, May 20, the year was 1937. That was the day that workers at the Jones and Laughlin plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania voted in the first ever union election in the United States’ steel industry under the National Labor Relations Board.

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    2 mins
  • May 19 - Remembering C.L.R. James

    May 19 - Remembering C.L.R. James
    May 19 2026

    Today in Labor History, May 19, the year was 1989. That was the day that black author and Marxist theorist CLR James passed away. James was born in Trinidad, at the time a Caribbean colony that was part of the British empire.

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    2 mins
  • May 18 - Birth of the Gray Panthers

    May 18 - Birth of the Gray Panthers
    May 18 2026

    Today in Labor History, May 18, the year was 1972. That was the day that Maggie Kuhn stood before a group of reporters to tell them about her organization, the Gray Panthers. The idea for the group had started two years earlier.

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    2 mins
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