Labor Quiz: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit?
Monday, March 26, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Who originally classified legendary UAW
President Walter Reuther (at right)
as the most dangerous man in Detroit? Henry
Ford, George Romney or Alfred P. Sloan? Click
here and you could be this week’s
winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: An agreement that
new workers were forced to sign as a condition
of employment, stating that they were not
members of any union and that they would not
join a union, was known as a “yellow dog
contract.” Says reader Matt Borus “Learned
this from a Charlie King song!” And, says Tom
Cowperthwaite, “The yellow dog contract was
used extensively to bust unionization drives in
the early 20th century, for example after the
large-scale NYC transit strikes in
1916.”