:: rawblogXport ::

union news / workers rights / construction / safety / irony...
today's home page

carpentersunionbc.com
google news

recent posts:
  • Lawsuits filed in Polson deck collapse By JOHN STR...
  • Asbestos: Leavitt Leaves Libby in Lurch By Jordan ...
  • Construction Accident Injures 3 WXYZ, MI Of the s...
  • Contractor electrocuted By KATIE O'CONNOR, Phoenix...
  • Organized labor will monitor polls Boston.com, MA ...
  • Labor leaders call on companies to hire more local...
  • Teamster picket disrupts GM production WJRT, MI T...
  • 'Mr. Peanut' joins workers on the PSAC picket line...
  • ARROW LAKES GENERATING STATION RESUMES FULL POWER ...
  • OSHA Publishes Final Rule on Whistleblower Procedu...

  • BlogRolling:


    blogs that link here


    eXTReMe Tracker
    Powered by Blogger

    Powered by BlogRolling

    Listed on BlogsCanada

    member union label


    Get Firefox!




    implementation:
    email d@ve2300
    this weblog is the work of dave livingston, a union carpenter in nelson bc canada






    the web
    rawblogXport

    references to rawblogXport:
    Confined Space
    "Hat tip to rawblogXport for this."
    Jordan Barab, Confined Space
    "a great labor news digest..."
    Labor Blog
    "rawblogXport was there, providing consistently good labor news..."
    Political Site of the Day
    may.25.05
    Confined Space
    "Senators Push Legislation to Toughen OSHA Penalties"
    Workers Comp Insider
    Human Fall Traps
    Workers Comp Insider
    "May is labor history month"
    Workers Comp Insider
    "A tip of the hat..."
    NathanNewman.org
    "Union Democracy in Carpenters"

    FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of labor and economic issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 Chapter 1 Sec.107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.




    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
    Cesar Chavez




    :: Thursday, August 26, 2004 ::

    The Ghost Shirts - Plant Closings and the Brave New Economy by Mike Davis, ProgressiveTrail.org, OR
    September, 1, 1934: Millions of cotton spindles stopped spinning. Across the Southern Piedmont, mill whistles blew but workers didn't come to work. The most exploited industrial workforce in the United States – the "lint heads" of the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama – was on strike.

    As mill owners appealed frantically for injunctions, tear gas, and the National Guard, a vast, peaceful army of textile workers demolished the image of Southern labor as culturally servile and unorganizable. With voices honed to spare beauty in the choirs of mountain Baptist churches, they sang, instead, powerful hymns of solidarity.

    And they were robustly answered (often in Portuguese, Italian, or French) by the mill workers of New England who joined what became the first industry-wide general strike of the 1930s. It was also the most violently repressed. Before FDR (more concerned to appease the "lords of the loom" than to liberate their slaves) cajoled the national textile union to call off the strike, thousands had been beaten, tear-gassed, and arrested. Thirteen –- mostly in the South -- had been shot dead.
  • posted 6:53 AM :: reference link :: 0 comments ::
  • -------------------------------------------

    Comments: Post a Comment


    unions: the folks that brought you the weekend Powered by Blogger