Labor Quiz: The Battle of the Overpass

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Competing railroads ordering their workers to fight it out over rights to use a bridge in Loudon County, Virginia in 1919; thugs hired by Ford Motors beating up union organizers in Dearborn, Michigan in 1932; or the worst rush hour incident of all time, when fistfights broke out during a traffic jam in Los Angeles in 1997. Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor music CD!

Last Week's Quiz: The Bread and Roses strike was by textile workers in Lawrence, Mass. In 1912.  The demand for bread and roses, the title of a poem of the day, was an appeal for both fair wages and lives that had time to enjoy some of life’s beauties.