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.

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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

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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.