Union Voice: Readers Write: Novel Approach to Montana's Labor History

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

In response to our recent report on Cripple Creek, CO (Remembering Cripple Creek, 8/20), Richard Laubach of AFGE 2419 sent in information about the remnants of the miner’s union hall in Granite, Montana, one of the area’s famous ghost towns (r). Reminds us that Ivan Doig’s new novel “Work Song”, which is set amid the labor strife of 1919 Butte, Montana, provides a vivid -- if fairly clumsily-written -- rendering of contemporary life in those towns. – photo by Thomas Lee