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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Ford Hunger March, Box 25, Derry’s missing “Factory Girls"

Dave Elsila on the 1932 Ford Hunger March commemoration in Detroit, labor historian Julie Greene talks about her new book, “Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers & The Panama Canal,” and Chris Garlock searches for Derry’s missing “Factory Girls.”
Today’s music:The Ford Hunger March from "Forgotten -- the Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant"; Panama Canal by the Panama Brass; 'Factory Girls' by ELMA ORKESTRA. Bonus track: The Picket Line by Red Dust. 
PLUS: Francis Perkins Named Secretary of Labor, The Worker Uprising that Started the American Revolution and The Exodusters.