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Season 1 of LUS is complete

We celebrate our first anniversary with the 32nd Episode. This is the last show I'm doing through Riverwest Radio- Thanks to all of the folks at WXRW for hosting our show. We are moving forward as a podcast. Look here on the website for announcements about the first podcasts of LUS.


Episode 1- Which Side Are You On?

The Best of Labor's Untold Stories

Start here to listen to our episodes. All of season 1 episodes are now here.


More Episodes- from Bay View to Blair Mountain

Episode 2- The Battle of Blair Mountain

LUS takes us back to the mine wars in West Va. and the struggles for union recognition and economic justice. Click on picture for audio.

Episode 3-The Bay View Massacre

We examine the bloodiest day in Wisconsin labor history. We pay homage to martyrs in the struggle for  the eight hour day. Click on picture for audio.


The Allis-Chalmers Labor Struggles

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Striking A-C workers trying to stop scabs from entering the Allis-Chalmers plant during the strike.

The first of three episodes remembering the bitter labor struggles at The Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. in West Allis, WI in the 1940's. Click on picture for audio.

Episode 5 - Pt.2-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

The second episode of our LUS examining the struggle between an hard-core anti-labor management and a militant union at Allis Chalmers Mfg.  Click on picture for audio. 

Episode 6 - Pt.3-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 4 - Pt.1-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

Episode 6 - Pt.3-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

The coda of the story of the epic labor wars between the UAW-CIO and the Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co. and beginnings of the post-war "Red Scares".  Click on picture for audio. 

Episode 7- The 1913 Italian Hall Tragedy

Episode 7- The 1913 Italian Hall Tragedy

Episode 6 - Pt.3-The Allis Chalmers Strike(s)

  

Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen
To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country
I’ll take you to a place called Italian Hall
And the miners are having their big Christmas ball . . .Click on the picture for audio

Episode 8- The Molly Maguires

Episode 7- The 1913 Italian Hall Tragedy

Episode 9- Labor Troubador Larry Penn

 This episode of LUS drills into the often-misrespresented history of the  Molly Maguires. The Molly Maguires may have been a secret society of  mainly Irish immigrant hard coal miners in Eastern Pennsylvania. Or  maybe not . Click on Picture for audio

Episode 9- Labor Troubador Larry Penn

Episode 7- The 1913 Italian Hall Tragedy

Episode 9- Labor Troubador Larry Penn

 This episode pays tribute to Milwaukee folk legend and union  troubador Larry Penn. Larry was a Teamster truck driver and a prolific  folk musician who played songs about workers, trains, hoboes, and union  values. Click on the picture for audio.


From Dublin to Detroit- More Episodes of LUS

Episode 10- The 1913 Dublin Lockout

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

Episode 11- The Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Irish workers fight for economic justice and union recognition under the leadership of "Big Jim" Larkin and the ITGWU. Click on the picture for audio.

Episode 11- The Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

Episode 11- The Southern Tenant Farmers Union

 This episode drills into the history of the Southern Tenant Farmer  Union, a pioneering, multi-racial formation that grew in the South in  the 30's & 40's.  Click on the picture for audio.

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

 Militant Black Autoworkers in Detroit formed the Dodge Revolutionary  Union Movement in the late 60's. DRUM fought both The Chrysler  Corporation and the United Auto Workers union for a better deal and a  better world. Click on the picture for audio.

Episode 13- Harry Haywood, "Black Bolshevik"

Episode 13- Harry Haywood, "Black Bolshevik"

Episode 12- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)

Harry Haywood was both history maker and witness to revolutionary activism through the 20th century. Yet he is absent from many labor history books. Why? Click on the picture for audio.

Episode 14- Women in Labor

Episode 13- Harry Haywood, "Black Bolshevik"

Episode 14- Women in Labor

We celebrate International Women's Day with a tribute to our militant sisters. From  martyred Fannie Sellins to modern day labor hero Dolores Huerta, women have always been at the spear point of labor history. Click on the picture for audio.

Episode 15- The ILGWU

Episode 13- Harry Haywood, "Black Bolshevik"

Episode 14- Women in Labor

Sadly, it appears that I've lost the audio file for this show. The story of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is a fascinating chapter in American labor history. Here's a link to Cornell U.'s excellent ILGWU archives. Click on the picture for the link.


Musical Bookends-Episodes 16-21

Episode 16-Hazel Dickens

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Hazel Dickens' music is a sound track for working people's struggles. She knew of what she sang in songs like "Coal Miner's Blues", "Black Lung", and "Coal Mining Women".

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Its 1917 and its copper country in Bisbee, AZ. One of the most outrageous crimes against workers ever pits Mary "Mother" Jones, "Big Bill" Haywood, and the IWW against the Phelps-Dodge Mining Co and their hired gun thugs.

Episode 18- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 2

Episode 17- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 1

Episode 18- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 2

A labor war story too big for just one episode! Intra-union conflict, murder, and legalized kidnapping are all there in Bisbee, Pt. 2.

Episode 19- May Day Music & Martyrs

Episode 19- May Day Music & Martyrs

Episode 18- The Bisbee Deportation Pt. 2

 Episode 19 celebrates International Workers Day, May 1 or May Day. We  celebrate martyrs in the struggle for the 8 hour day and sample some May  Day/Labor/struggle music from local to international. 

Episode 20- James Connolly

Episode 19- May Day Music & Martyrs

Episode 21- Save The Children

 We pay tribute to Irish labor leader and revolutionary James Connolly on  the anniversary of his execution by the British government. 

Episode 21- Save The Children

Episode 19- May Day Music & Martyrs

Episode 21- Save The Children

Uvalde- a society that will not protect its children...Raging and mourning through song.


Labor History Marches On

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

 Episode 22 explores the complex history of teacher unions in the US. The  road from "professional associations" to militant fighting unions was  long and difficult. Now put your pencils down and give me your undivided  attention while I teach you a lesson.... 

Episode 23- Teacher Unions Pt. 2

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

 Episode 23 continues the story of the birth, growth, and transformation of teacher unions in the U.S.  This episode covers important battles from the 70's to the present. 

Episode 24- Independence Day

Episode 22- Teacher Unions Pt. 1

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

 In Episode 24 of LUS, we explore how we've experienced Independence Day  over time and from different perspectives. We are joined by Frederick  Douglass, James Earl Jones, and Paul Robeson- and a new version of our  theme song, "Which Side Are You On?". 

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

 Episode 25 of LUS celebrates "Woodyfest", a music festival celebrating  the life and work of Woody Guthrie. We also revisit the Ludlow Massacre  through music and narrative. 

Episode 26-"MIner's Angel"

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

Episode 26-"MIner's Angel"

 Episode 26 pays tribute to Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, the "Miner's  Angel". "Mother Jones", an indominable Irish immigrant, was involved in  labor struggles across the U.S. for over 50 years. She had a special  relationship with miners, hence the sobriquet, "The Miner's Angel". We  celebrate her in words and music. 

Episode 27-Eugene Debs

Episode 25-Woodyfest & Ludlow Revisited

Episode 26-"MIner's Angel"

 Episode 27 pays homage to one of the great socialist labor leaders in  American history, Eugene Victor Debs, also known as "Convict #9653. He received a million votes for President in 1920, though he was imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary at the time. 


"10,000 Men Named George", Grapes, and more labor heroes

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

 Episode 28 of LUS present s the story of the first union organized and  lead by African-American workers- The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car  Porters- and its leader, A. Phillip Randolph. A critical chapter in  North American labor history and civil rights history. 

Episode 29-"Huelga" The Delano Story

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

 On the anniversary of the beginning of the Delano (CA) grape  strike. We tell the story of the heroic Filipino and Latino agricultural  workers who successfully struck for better wages, working conditions  and union recognition and a contract. It was one of the most successful  boycott movements in labor history. Si, se puede! 

Episode 30- Joe Hill, Wobbly Troubador

Episode 28-The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Episode 30- Joe Hill, Wobbly Troubador

 Episode 30 doffs its cap to labor martyr (and Wobbly) Joe Hill. Famous  for the sign-off, "Don't Mourn, Organize", Joe was an organizer,  troubador, and legend. Gotta be a musical episode! 

Episode 31- Walter Rodney

Episode 32- A salute to Ken Germanson

Episode 30- Joe Hill, Wobbly Troubador

 Episode 31 of LUS pays tribute to Guyanese scholar, historian and  activist Walter Rodney who was assassinated in 1980. His best known work  is "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". 

Episode 32- A salute to Ken Germanson

Episode 32- A salute to Ken Germanson

Episode 32- A salute to Ken Germanson

 We complete Season 1 with a tribute to Wisconsin Labor History icon Ken Germanson. 


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