Labor Quiz: What's a Siderographer?
Monday, September 10, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The siderographer's union was formed in 1899; siderographers were: a type of
telegrapher, hot-type typesetters, or printing plate engravers? Click here and you could be
next week’s winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: The first Labor Day bill was
introduced in New York State, but Oregon was the first state to pass a Labor Day
bill, on February 21, 1887. New York’s passed later that year, as did similar
laws in Colorado, Massachusetts and New Jersey. By 1894, 23 other states had
adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress
passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday
in the District of Columbia and the territories. Congrats to Carolyn Marshall of
AFGE Local 12, Washington, DC, this week’s quiz winner!