Barab Wins Quote Contest
Wednesday, March 16, 2005(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Jordan Barab is this week’s Quote
Contest winner, correctly identifying Abraham
Lincoln as the source of the quote: “I am
glad to see that a system of labor prevails in
New England under which laborers can strike
when they want to, where they are not obliged
to work under all circumstances, and are not
tied down and obliged to labor whether you pay
them or not. I like the system which lets
a man quit when he wants to, and wish it might
prevail everywhere.” Honorable mentions
to Mark Cohen, Michael Sprinker (who notes that
“(fellow Republican) Tom DeLay would be
calling for the expulsion of anyone who said
this now), Jennifer O'Dell, Scott Wilson,
Hunter Phillips, Kate Clifford, Robert Lucore,
Calvin Goddard Zon, Ryan Genovese, Alan
Freeman, Jeff Skinner , Mike Blain, Bob Jensen,
Loretta Kane (who reports that Lincoln said it
in New Haven, CT while giving an anti-slavery
speech), Reza Namdar & Patti Devlin.