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Black Labor Organizer, Educator General Baker Dies

HeadlineMay 19, 2014

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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