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Omaha Steve

(103,460 posts) Sat Jun 6, 2015, 08:43 PM Jun 2015

6-6-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1988 in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/june-6-fighting-aparthied/

June 6, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1988. That was the day that between two and three million black workers went on strike in South Africa. The Congress of South African Trade Unions had called for three days of “national peaceful protest.”

2:00 minute audio at link.