Two generous contributions this month highlight ongoing efforts by the Metro Washington Labor Council’s Community Services Agency to increase general contributions this year to support basic operations. CSA works to improve the lives of workers and their families by meeting their human and social services needs; by building broad and diverse coalitions to promote and protect dignity and justice for workers; and by empowering workers and their unions to make their communities better, more responsive places to live, work, raise a family and retire. The Food and Allied Service Trades Metro Washington Council and the United Mine Workers of America both made significant contributions to CSA this month. The contributions "show that ‘Labor Cares- Labor Shares’ is more than a slogan,” said CSA Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy, “it’s a reality here in our community, and the support for DC-area working families is most definitely needed and appreciated.” Find out more about CSA on our website at dclabor.org, click on Community Services.
With just a few weeks to go before Election Day, phonebanks to get out the labor vote continue today and throughout the weekend at both the AFL-CIO and NoVA Labor; for details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1933, Wisconsin dairy farmers began their third strike of the year in an attempt to raise the price of milk paid to producers during the Great Depression. Several creameries were bombed before the strike ended a month later. The economy eventually improved, allowing the farmers to make more money. On October 23, 2001, local postal workers Joseph Curseen and Thomas Morris died nearly a month after having inhaled anthrax at the Brentwood mail sorting center in Washington, D.C. Other postal workers had been made ill but survived. Letters containing the deadly spores had been addressed to U.S. Senate offices and media outlets. Today’s labor quote is by Monsignor John A. Ryan "Effective labor unions are still by far the most powerful force in society for the protection of the laborer’s rights and the improvement of his or her condition. No amount of employer benevolence, no diffusion of a sympathetic attitude on the part of the public, no increase of beneficial legislation, can adequately supply for the lack of organization among the workers themselves." John Augustine Ryan was a leading Catholic priest who was a noted moral theologian, professor, author and advocate of social justice.
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