Labor History in 2:00

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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.
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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.
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  • February 16 - The Diamond Mine Disaster
    2025/02/16

    On this day in labor history, the year was 1883 marking the deadliest day in Illinois mining history at the time. 74 men and boys lost their lives digging for coal in the Diamond Mine Disaster in Braidwood Illinois.

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  • February 15 - US Labor Against the War
    2025/02/15

    “We need to spend money on health care, schools, housing--not a war budget.” This was the statement of Fred Pecker, a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6,

    On this day in labor history, the year was 2003.

    Fred, who was protesting in San Francisco, was just one of the estimated 10 million people in 800 cities across the globe that protested the U.S. War in Iraq that day.

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  • February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa is Born
    2025/02/14

    On this day in labor history, the year was 1913, James Riddle Hoffa was born to a coal miner in Brazil, Indiana. Tragedy struck the Hoffa home in 1920 when at age 7 young Jimmy lost his father.

    In 1924, like many families in Brazil the Hoffa family moved to Detroit, Michigan in search of work.

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