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Today in labor history: Labor organizer “Mother” Bloor born

July 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On July 8, 1862, labor organizer and leading communist Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor was born on Staten Island, N.Y.

Woody Guthrie’s first Daily Worker column

July 12, 2012 By Woody Guthrie

Woody Sez "The national debit is one thing I caint figger out"

ESPN honors Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney

March 1, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

Lester Rodney was a crusader for equality and instrumental in integrating baseball as sports editor with the Daily Worker in the 1930s, says ESPN in a recent video on its website.

A first-class paper

January 17, 2009 By Dan Margolis

For more than 80 years, the People’s Weekly World and its predecessors, including the Daily Worker and the Daily World, have been delivering first-class coverage of news important to working people but ignored by the corporate...

Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter

May 18, 2007 By Tim Wheeler

Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...