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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"...

tHURSDAY, oCTOBER 30, 2014

10/30/2014

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.”

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

10/29/2014

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.”

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

10/28/2014

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..."

Monday, October 27, 2014

10/27/2014

Nurses and first responders call on DC Mayor Vincent Gray and the DC City Council last Friday to ensure that health care workers and the public are protected against the spread of the Ebola virus...On this date in 1904, the New York City subway, the first rapid-transit system in America, opened...Hubert Humphrey: "“The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land..."

Friday, October 24, 2014

10/25/2014

Union Halloween candy at Labor411.org; History: 40-hour workweek goes into effect (1940); Quote: Franklin Delano Roosevelt on freedom and unions.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

10/24/2014

UFCW 400 members at Kroger extend contract; Labor Humor: What's the difference between a workplace cubicle and a jail cell?; History: DC postal workers die from anthrax (2001); Quote: Bertolt Brecht on struggle and failure

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

10/23/2014

Walmart strikers shut down K Street; 1934 Pretty Boy Floyd -- "Sagebrush Outlaw" -- killed; Quote: Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd."

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

10/22/2014

DC Troublemakers School; [email protected] phonebank; 1933 Wisconsin dairy farmer strike; Quote: Frederick Douglass

Monday, October 20, 2014

10/21/2014

Fasanella "Corner Butcher"posters; Union City, UFCW 400 Win ILCA Awards; DC YTU "Vote or Treat" meeting; Staples boycott still on; Quote: Louis Brandeis

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