"I live in Montgomery County and will be early voting,” writes Eddie Acosta. “I'm looking for the endorsement list for the general election; I have a number of people who want to take it into the booth with them.”
Great idea! It's posted online here. “A jobless man was a lazy good-for-nothing.... These men suffered from depression. They felt despised, they were ashamed of themselves.”
Reporting on the impact of long-term unemployment on coal miners during the Depression (see History, below) Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Patrick Dixon talks with Donald Horton about building the Gateway Arch in St Louis, completed on October 28, 1965. Patrick also talks with Daniel Sidorick about the history of workers’ struggles at Campbell's Soup; the Campbell's factory in Camden, New Jersey was demolished on November 3, 1991. Plus: "Union Blood" the latest song by SpudWrench, AKA Michael Peterson, the singing elevator engineer. Wall Street crashes on what came to be known as "Black Tuesday," throwing the world's economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent - 1929 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services Union City Radio
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