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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 ::
Mural in Paducah celebrates workers By BERRY CRAIG, AP wire
More than a century of local labor history is painted on the Paducah floodwall.
'Union labor built a lot of Paducah, including this floodwall,' said Jeff Wiggins, a veteran labor activist. 'It's appropriate that our history is now here for everybody to see.'
Organized labor is the subject of a new mural on the concrete high water barrier that is decorated with several scenes of Paducah history. The artwork highlights the old Ohio River city's traditional Labor Day Parade, one of the oldest such processions in the country.
'Our first parade was in 1893,' said Wiggins, a Steelworker and president of the Western Kentucky Area Council, AFL-CIO, an association of regional unions. 'America's first Labor Day Parade was just 11 years before.'------------------------------------------- posted 6:59 AM :: reference link ::
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