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