Listen "December 27 - FDR Takes Over the Rails"
Episode Synopsis
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.
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