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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Saturday, May 01, 2004 ::

    May Day: Born of U.S. workers’ struggles By ALAN MAASS, Socialist Worker
    Under the influence of the growing socialist movement in the U.S., labor turned to more militant tactics. "The way to get [the eight-hour day]," Peter McGuire of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners wrote in 1882, "is by organization...We want an enactment by the workingmen themselves that on a given day, eight hours should constitute a day’s work, and they ought to enforce it themselves."
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