It started out as a typical day for Adam Peak, head meat cutter and UFCW Local 400 shop steward at Kroger #406 in Appomattox, Virginia. Then Peak’s store manager ran in and told him to get some ice; a truck driver making a delivery had collapsed from heat exhaustion. Peak ran out with the ice, but he saw that the driver wasn’t breathing. “I took my meat coat off, laid him down on his back, put it under his neck and started doing CPR,” Peak recalled. “After about four minutes, which seemed like forever, the paramedics came, but they let me keep doing CPR.” “Then, the next thing you know, he took a big breath,” Peak said. The paramedics took the driver to the hospital and later that day Peak learned that his CPR had saved the man’s life. “I was just doing what I’d want done if the same thing happened to me,” Peak said. Now, that's solidarity!
Go to dclabor.org for the complete story and to see a photo of Adam Peak. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1868, educator and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois was born. In 1940, Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land Is Your Land” following a frigid trip—partially by hitchhiking, partially by rail—from California to Manhattan as the Great Depression was still raging. Today’s labor quote is by Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie, who heard Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” during the Depression and resolved to himself: “We can’t just bless America, we’ve got to change it.”
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