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Omaha Steve

(103,476 posts) Sat Oct 3, 2015, 06:20 PM Oct 2015

10-3-15 A Standard of Living that is A Cut Above in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/october-3-a-standard-of-living-that-is-a-cut-above/

October 3, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1943. That was the day the United Packinghouse Workers of America was chartered under the CIO. The new union was the result of the CIO’s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. Started in 1937 the Organizing Committee was an effort to build a union that broke down barriers between races and crafts in the meatpacking industry.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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