Labor Quiz: Postage Due
Monday, April 9, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Which of these labor leaders has NOT been honored on a U.S. postage stamp? Sam
Gompers, George Meany, Mother Jones, or Cesar Chavez? Click here to submit your
answer and you could be next week’s quiz winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: The 10 bolts of lightning on the seal of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers represent the ten founders of
the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (which later became the IBEW) --
Henry Miller, J. T. Kelly, W. Hedden, C. J. Sutter, M. Dorsey, T. J. Finnell, E.
Hartung, F. Heizleman, Joseph Berlowitz, and H. Fisher -- who met in a small
room above Stolley’s Dance Hall in a poor section of St. Louis on November 21,
1891 at the union’s founding convention (click
here to download a complete history of the IBEW).