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Omaha Steve

(103,469 posts) Tue Jun 7, 2016, 08:55 PM Jun 2016

The High Cost of Standing Up in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/june-7-the-high-cost-of-standing-up/

June 7, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1929. That was the day that Police Chief Orville Aderholt was shot and killed, at a camp of striking textile workers in Gastonia, North Carolina. The textile mills had fallen on hard times in the 1920s.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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