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Today in labor history: Soldiers flee striking Pittsburgh workers

July 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1877 during the Great Railroad strike, workers in Pittsburgh forced soldiers sent to quell the job action to flee the city.

Today in labor history: Seattle Potlatch Riots

July 17, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Much of the coverage in the local newspapers blamed the IWW for the attack and accused it for being a destabilizing force in the city.

Living New Deal illuminates labor, art history on San Francisco’s waterfront

July 17, 2013 By Michelle Kern

Living New Deal will catalogue and preserve New Deal projects in the U.S.

Today in labor history: 1934 San Francisco longshoremen strike

July 16, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The International Longshoremen's Association led the battle for better pay and better hours.

“Liberation Music”: Defining an era of protest through jazz

July 16, 2013 By Anthony Mangos

The music is representative of the free style era that bore it, but there is nothing obsolete about this compilation. It illuminate a period when musical expression played an important role in progressive politics.