Program Title:
Labor On The Move| Speech By Richard Trumka
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KZ2244
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Labor On The Move| Speech By Richard Trumka| MARCH 9, 1996. - CONTENT: Speech by Richard Trumka, Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO given at the annual fundraiser for the Southern California Library for Social Science Research in Los Angeles. Trumka is a third generation miner. At age 33, he was elected president of the United Mineworkers of America. Trumka describes the current revitalization of the U.S. labor movement. He asserts the labor movement is about the "real America" and quotes Harvey Milk, who said that "labor and civil rights are really the same thing." Concludes with a cry to take the country back. - Broadcast date not given. Recorded March 9, 1996.
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31:45
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