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On this week’s show: A rollicking hour with former union clowns Murray Horwitz (right) and Chris Bricker; both were graduates of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and went on to become professional clowns and then union reps at the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. Horwitz went on to become an American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster, and arts administrator, and Bricker is a longtime labor organizer and saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 1000, the acoustic travelling musicians union. Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880 17 workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971 Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services Comments are closed.
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