Labor Quiz: John L. Lewis Speaks
Monday, January 7, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Labor legend John L. Lewis, a longtime
president of the United Mine Workers of America
and a driving force in the formation of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations (the CIO
of the AFL-CIO) had a way with words.
Which of the following quotes can be attributed
to him? “They are smiting me hip and
thigh…” "No tin-hat brigade of
goose-stepping vigilantes…” "Taft-Hartley
is the first ugly, savage thrust of Fascism in
America…” Click
here to see the complete quotes and you
could be next week's winner of a labor music
CD! - photo courtesy WisconsinHistory.org
Last
Week's Quiz: According to 2011 and 2012 reports
filed by the unions with the Department of
Labor, the nation’s largest unions are: NEA,
with 3,068,000 members; SEIU, 1,921,000, and
AFSCME, 1,423,000.
