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Today in labor history: Seattle Potlatch Riots
July 17, 2013Much of the coverage in the local newspapers blamed the IWW for the attack and accused it for being a destabilizing force in the city.
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Living New Deal illuminates labor, art history on San Francisco’s waterfront
July 17, 2013Living New Deal will catalogue and preserve New Deal projects in the U.S.
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Today in labor history: 1934 San Francisco longshoremen strike
July 16, 2013The International Longshoremen's Association led the battle for better pay and better hours.
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“Liberation Music”: Defining an era of protest through jazz
July 16, 2013The music is representative of the free style era that bore it, but there is nothing obsolete about this compilation. It illuminate a period when musical expression played an important role in progressive politics.
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Today in labor history: Labor activist Oscar Neebe is born
July 12, 2013Oscar William Neebe, an anarchist and labor activist, was born on this day in 1850, in New York City.
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