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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1

Working Class History

CHAPTER

The Role of Local 8 in Philadelphia

Local 8's organizing across racial and ethnic lines was particularly important in Philadelphia, which has a long history of deep internal divisions. The deadliest riot in Philadelphia before the Civil War was one in which Protestant Philadelphiaans killed 20 Irish Catholic Philadelphians in 1844. "Racism weakens workers and therefore disempowers them"

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