"They didn't hate a boss or a butcher. They hated the whole system of bosses, but that was a different thing. It wasn't the same kind of anger. And there was something else, Mac. The hopelessness wasn't in them. They were quiet, and they were working; but in the back of every mind there was conviction that sooner or later they would win their way out of the system they hated." James Franco's new film "In Dubious Battle" opens the 2017 DC LaborFest Monday, May 1 at 7p at the AFI in Silver Spring. Click here for tickets and here to see the trailer. The U.S. House of Representatives passes House Joint Resolution No. 184, a constitutional amendment to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. The Senate approved the measure a few weeks later, but it was never ratified by the statesand is still technically pending - 1924 (Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often life-threatening work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman. Photographer Lewis Hine—who himself died in poverty in 1940—did as much, and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by American capitalism.) On the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seizes the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward & Co. after management defies the National Labor Relations Board - 1944 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services Union City Radio
Weekdays, 7:15am WPFW-FM 89.3 or click here. Tell Trump: workers need $15 and a union! Wed, April 26, 9:15am – 11:00am First St NE & Constitution Ave NE, DC Muslim Americans in the Workplace: Melting Pot or Boiling Cauldron? Wed, April 26, 11:30am – 1:30pm Whittemore House (Woman's National Democratic Club) DC LERA Luncheon Event; Registration is required “I like to be where the action is,” Joyce Graham says. If anything, that’s an understatement. But it goes a long way toward explaining why the UFCW Local 400 member has kept working as a nurse at Kaiser Permanente into her late 70s, and is only now retiring this May. The decision wasn’t easy because she loves nursing, her employer and her union so much. “It’s so nice to take care of people and see them get better, it’s rewarding,” she said. Read more on the Local 400 website. |