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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 1 MIN

June 12 - Chicago, Hog Butcher for the World

from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show

On this day in Labor History the year was 1904.  That was the day that 18,000 workers in the Chicago’s stockyards went out on strike.  Work in the stockyards was often brutal and dangerous. Thousands of workers toiled in the yards, many of them immigrants from Eastern Europe.

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