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May 19, 2014

Black Labor Organizer, Educator General Baker Dies 
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The labor organizer and educator General Baker has died. A founder of
the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Baker helped organize wildcat
strikes at Detroit auto plants in the 1960s. He was also one of the
first public draft resisters during the Vietnam War.

 

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