Labor Quiz: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Monday, July 30, 2012

Labor Quiz: The Battle of Blair Mountain(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 here and you could be next week’s Quiz winner!

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 winner!

 

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