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The Union Makes Us Strong, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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The First Red Scare

iw w's history is that they'd date a just mass and this is what the first red scare was, basically a ws an anti iw w thing. Even even early neader liberals would set the stuff up because they they were so scared of people. They were like, we will literally give you democracy in the workplace. We will give you workers on corporate boards, literally, just so long as you don't like, take everything over. The reason why we have an eight hour workday is because there was, in chicago, a famous strike that um ended up with a police riot. And then they rounded up union organizers, socialists and anarchists who ere, like

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