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Omaha Steve

(103,453 posts) Sun Dec 27, 2015, 07:27 PM Dec 2015

12-27-15 FDR takes over the Rails in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/december-27-fdr-takes-over-the-rails/

December 27, 2015
On this day in labor history the year was 1943. That was the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seized control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. The nation was in the midst of World War II.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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