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Friday, October 31, 2014

10/31/2014

This is the final weekend before next Tuesday’s mid-term elections, and the local labor movement is hitting the doors and phones hard to make sure working people turn out to vote...labor humor: "Starting Salary"...On this date in 1891, Tennessee sent in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike...in 1941, Mt. Rushmore sculpture completed...Walter Reuther: “There’s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box"...

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tHURSDAY, oCTOBER 30, 2014

10/30/2014

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Scores of workers at the Washington Post rallied with a boisterous crowd of supporters -- including a small marching band -- on the sidewalk in front of the Post during the noon hour on Tuesday... On this date in 1986, Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urged employers to begin spying on workers... Sam Gompers: “We reward our friends and punish our enemies.”

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

10/29/2014

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Registration now open for National Organizers Workshop...on this date in 1929, Wall Street crashed...British economist John Maynard Keynes: “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of all.”

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

10/28/2014

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Washington Teachers Union Local 6 president Liz Davis and Metro Washington Council president Jos Williams give away books to kids in First Book event at Whittier Elementary School in the District; On this date in 1965, the Gateway Arch, a 630-foot parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri was completed after two and a half years; Martin Luther King Jr.: "History is a great teacher..."

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