Something I had posted on my union's BBS a while back:

[pnorman]

"The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.":

The poem was by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

pnorman

[ismnotwasm]

1. How poignant

What an incredible picture.

Think I'll borrow that picture if you don't mind. I'm the union rep for my unit in a hospital, and the gains unions have made contribute ot people asking questions like "What does the union do for me?" Or say things like "I don't want to pay dues for something I never use".

[pnorman]

2. Of course! It's 'public' anyhow, but even if it weren't so, I'd be more than happy to "give" it.

Here's from another posting I had made on that same thread:

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"The judge who issued an injunction against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Philadelphia in 1922, declaring that "This organization is no corporation, should have no legal recognition and should be driven out of all existence as a menace to the nation" was an extreme instance, yet he helps to explain labor's ingrained fear of judicial control."

http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/sg41577.htm
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Up until the Norris LaGuardia Act of 1932, unions were generally considered to be operating "in restraint of trade". Accordingly, any judge could issue an injunction against a union for that "reason". Many did just that, and those injunctions were frequently CRIPPLING to that union. This is NOT "ancient history"!

pnorman

[pnorman]

3. Here's from another posting on that same thread:

"The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for—not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country." --- . George Baer, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite_Coal_Strike

pnorman