Dolores Gerber of CWA Local 2222 is the winner of yesterday’s quiz, answering correctly that Trumbo is both a 2015 film starring Bryan Cranston as the legendary blacklisted author and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, AND a 2007 documentary portrait of Trumbo written by his son Christopher and directed by Peter Askin. Both are being shown in this year’s DC Labor FilmFest, starting tonight. Today’s Quiz: This Sunday is May Day and the 185th birthday of legendary labor organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones; there will be a wreath-laying in her honor at noon at 2601 Powder Mill Rd in Silver Spring, MD. Which of these quotes is by Mother Jones? "You are never strong enough that you don't need help."; "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."; "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Click here to submit your answer and you could win a pair of free passes to the 2016 DC Labor FilmFest! If you missed yesterday’s broadcast of “Your Rights at Work,” (1p on Thursdays) catch it here. Guests include CWA 2336 president Terry Richardson, Firefighters Local 36 president Ed Smith and historian Lane Windham. Plus the Labor song of the week and the Labor Quiz. Union City Radio’s Chris Garlock and DCNA’s Ed Smith host.
We have come here through toil and weary marches, through storms and tempests, over mountains, and amid the trials of poverty and distress, to lay our grievances at the doors of our National Legislature and ask them in the name of Him whose banners we bear, in the name of Him who plead for the poor and the oppressed, that they should heed the voice of despair and distress that is now coming up from every section of our country, that they should consider the conditions of the starving unemployed of our land, and enact such laws as will give them employment, bring happier conditions to the people, and the smile of contentment to our citizens. When Coxey tried to speak at the U.S. Capitol in 1894, police arrested him for walking on the grass. Fifty years to the day later, on May 1, 1944, Coxey finally delivered this speech from the steps of the U.S. Congress. As chanting strikers and their supporters picketed the L Street Verizon Wireless store behind him, AFGE staffer Jason Roe on Tuesday delivered over $400 to CWA 2336 president Terry Richardson to support local strikers. “This demonstration of solidarity means so much to us,” said Richardson (left), “Thank you!” Roe (right) collected the contributions from his fellow workers – many of them members of his union, OPEIU Local 2 – at AFGE. Contributions can also be made through the Community Services Agency; click here to donate securely online. Walking the same line, American Income Life’s George Farenthold noted that AIL covers insurance premiums for CWA members for the duration of the strike, which is entering its third week. Click here to sign up for picket duty this week and follow us on Twitter @dclabor for the latest strike news. photo by Chris Garlock/Union City |