Senator, Labor Champion Loses Battle With Cancer

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The Bottomline Remembers Ed Mayne

(KCPW News) Senator Ed Mayne died Sunday after a nine-month battle with lung cancer. Despite his declining health, Mayne took time to talk about the importance of unions on The Bottomline's Labor Day show earlier this year. He hired on at Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine in 1964, and was quickly convinced that joining the United Steel Workers of America was the right thing to do:

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Senator Ed Mayne passed away Sunday at the age of 62.

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