IWW’s Little Red Songbook (Encore)

<p>Today's episode originally ran on August 12, 2018. This week's labor history: Yale Strom remembers WEVD, the Chicago radio station named for labor leader Eugene Victor Debs; Dan Duncan celebrates the founding of the AFL-CIO’s Maritime Trades Department; Saul Schniderman marks the anniversary of the publication of the IWW’s "Little Red Song Book," which is where all our music this week comes from; and Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week is a collection of posters, including one from the height of the Cold War showing an AFL-CIO map of forced labor gulags in the Soviet Union.</p> <p>Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at <a href='mailto:LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com'>LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.</p> <p>Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services.</p> <p>This week's music: Hold The Fort-Pete Seeger; Dump The Bosses Off Your Back-Anne Feeney; We Will Sing One Song - John Paul Wright; One Big Industrial Union-May Day Chorus of Asheville, performing at Firestorm Cafe on April 30th, 2011; The Preacher And The Slave-Mischief Brew. </p>