Labor Quiz: The Battle of Blair Mountain
Monday, July 30, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Which of the following occurred during the 1921
Battle of Blair Mountain: 10,000 armed coal
miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and
strikebreakers; private planes were hired to
drop homemade bombs on the miners;
approximately one million rounds were fired;
all of the above. Click
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Last Week’s Quiz: Women
still make only 77 cents to the dollar men earn
in America. Worldwide, "women are paid 18
percent on average less than their male
counterparts at work." This pay gap has
persisted without change for a decade. Congrats
to Jody Oliver, an AFSMCE retiree from
Cumberland, MD, this week’s quiz
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