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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 09:40 PM Aug 2013

"The turkey and champagne on the table are very cheap . . .

"We paid for them!" -- banner photographed on Thanksgiving Day, 1884, carried by a worker participating in the march on Prairie Avenue in Chicago, where the mansions of the one-percent of the day stood. They marched up and down the street, ringing the doorbells. For some reason, no one answered.

At least these workers had the right idea.



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