Labor Quiz: Nine Millionaires and a Plumber
Monday, October 1, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)“Nine Millionaires and a Plumber” refers
to: Mitt Romney’s “Kitchen Cabinet,”
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet, or Richard M.
Nixon’s “Watergate Gang”? Click
here and you could be next week’s
winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: The
Working Men's Parties (whose members were known
as "the Workies") were the first labor-oriented
political organizations in the United States;
the first Working Men's Party was founded in
Philadelphia in 1828. The National Labor Union
(NLU) was the first national labor federation
in the United States, founded in 1866 and
dissolved in 1873; the U.S. Labor Party (USLP)
was a political party formed in 1973 by the
National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC),
which served as a vehicle for right-winger
Lyndon LaRouche to run for President of the
United States in 1976. Congrats to Carrie
Biggs-Adams of NABET-CWA, Colmar Manor, MD,
this week’s quiz winner!