Labor Quiz: Empire State Building
Monday, January 14, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)How many workers were employed in the construction of New York’s Empire State
building? About 3,400; about 5,000; about 6,100? Click here and you could be
next week's winner of a labor music CD!
Last Week's Quiz: All of the
quotes listed in last week's quiz are attributable to 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).
- photo courtesy The New York Public Library