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Mo. labor sets Senate race as top priority
September 21, 2002ST. LOUIS – Delegates to the 21st semi-annual convention of the Missouri AFL-CIO left for home Sept. 17 united in their determination to return Jean Carnahan to the U. S. Senate in the Nov. 5 elections.
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Activists converge: People before Profits
September 21, 2002Next week anti-globalization activists will converge in Washington, D.C. for workers’ rights, environmental justice and equality for Third World countries. Here are a few demonstrations you can join: Demand justice for D.C. workers Tuesday, Sept. 24...
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Kenneth Yablonski, UMWA reformer, dies
September 20, 2002PITTSBURGH, Penn. – One of the legal champions of the rank-and-file fight to reform the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) was attorney Kenneth Yablonski, 68, who died Sept. 8 in Washington County, Pa. This reform...
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Health care for all
September 20, 2002The following resolution was passed unanimously, September 12, by the Ohio AFL-CIO.
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Books, baseball and birthdays
September 20, 2002We publish below excerpts from personal letters written by one of our country’s most famous political prisoners and Communist labor organizers, Gus Hall, who was general secretary and then national chairman of the Communist Party. The...
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