tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5750692717671609888..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Feeding the NationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32472436943069548722012-09-05T13:10:09.374-07:002012-09-05T13:10:09.374-07:00Then, I would have to marry Bill.
Then, I would have to marry Bill.<br />Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53816197323736527032012-09-04T23:02:45.247-07:002012-09-04T23:02:45.247-07:00My experience is in line with WB's appraisal. ...My experience is in line with WB's appraisal. The union that took my dues would not take my phone calls. And when I wrote to them, I got back a letter ... directed to someone else. <br /><br />The reps were these little dwarf potentates, invisible, unreachable, perpetually out to lunch. <br /><br />Anyway... Susan Anderson for President, I say. It's no time or fooling around, here, people. This is one candidate who could stand the heat in the Soup Kitchen.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29469904511136896752012-09-04T13:11:37.710-07:002012-09-04T13:11:37.710-07:00Unions were rooted in the life on the shop floor. ...Unions were rooted in the life on the shop floor. This is not the case any more; there's a class of full time pro-reps now; their decisions are often in line with a wider strategy and lousy with propriety.<br /><br />What men and women like Leif Dahl risked is almost incalculable for us.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15576834656019914642012-09-04T10:58:25.948-07:002012-09-04T10:58:25.948-07:00I'm so glad to see the cans
sterilized by stea...I'm so glad to see the cans<br />sterilized by steam<br />they are <br /><br />my parents<br />standing <br />ready <br /><br />when will I be hungry<br />enough to eat metal<br /><br />I already have<br />as little flakes<br />aftertaste so tinglingSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71717194769712666552012-09-04T10:16:07.511-07:002012-09-04T10:16:07.511-07:00Union oh union
please unionize me
immunize me
be ...Union oh union<br />please unionize me<br />immunize me<br /><br />be my voice<br />calling out<br />from the pockets<br />of the boss<br /><br />to the nearest continent<br />where the land is firm<br />where all are united<br /><br />the president is my age<br />what say Prez<br />will you venture<br />my capital again<br /><br />will you un-witch<br />the teachers<br />make good on your spell<br /><br />Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83041021086939701362012-09-04T09:24:04.553-07:002012-09-04T09:24:04.553-07:00Kevin,
Thanks for caring.
I've now added a...Kevin,<br /><br />Thanks for caring. <br /><br />I've now added a bottom photo of Leif Dahl, the union organizer who spent a decade attempting to lead the oppressed subjects of the Phillips Packing empire out of the wilderness. Futile in the end, it was.<br /><br />Not that having a union is any guarantee of the Promised Land. I suppose there are unions and unions, locals and locals, etc. But my own experience in this area was not good. Over the years I paid an awful lot of useless dues to the SEIU, thinking that might help my effort to get a fair shake out of employers who were no better than a pack of grifters. When push came to shove, the union dropped me like a bad habit and the grifters vanished into the night. Next the State Labor Board fouled up the putative settlements, sending the checks to the wrong people. The wrong people of course never sent back the checks. There went my two-bit retirement. <br /><br />(In this picture of course there were no Reds anywhere, merely many of the whiter shades of pink... as in embarrassed.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8836286373780343342012-09-04T08:22:53.416-07:002012-09-04T08:22:53.416-07:00Am I the only surprised to read that the workers h...Am I the only surprised to read that the workers had to fight for nine years for the right to have a union?<br /><br />The photos of their living conditions are just heartbreaking but at my age the shameless behavior of "job creators" should come as no surprise.-K-https://www.blogger.com/profile/03289562368002376807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5585988893832367922012-09-03T23:15:30.488-07:002012-09-03T23:15:30.488-07:00The king of the food processing industries which g...The king of the food processing industries which grew up in the late 19C in the Cambridge area was Phillips Packing. It became the biggest employer in the region, securing whopping DOD contracts in both world wars -- see e.g. <a href="http://www.phillips.packing.i8.com/cgi-bin/i/images/army_rations_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">Phillips Packing Company WWII K Rations</a>-- and eventually employing up to 10,000 people. Aggravated conditions and circumstances for workers led to ten years of labour agitation. In the 1937 strike a striker was run over and killed by a truck. From the time of that strike action up to 1946 there were strong efforts to unionize the plant workers, ultimately unsuccessful; the postwar Red Scare was the death knell for the CIO organization effort at Phillips. The company went out of business in the Sixties.<br /><br />The 1937 Phillips strike is notable for this period in labour movement history because blacks and whites, women and men struggled shoulder-to-shoulder to bring about change. <br /><br />Somewhat ironically, given what we can see here of the living conditions for Phillips' seasonal work force, marketing of products -- including the trademark brand, <a href="http://www.phillips.packing.i8.com/cgi-bin/i/images/phillips_label_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">Phillips Delicious Tomatoes</a> -- stressed the "Made in Dixie" angle. For instance:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.phillips.packing.i8.com/cgi-bin/i/images/phillips_ad_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">"This plantation-style soup is the best ever!"</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63057663113184636782012-09-03T21:52:07.966-07:002012-09-03T21:52:07.966-07:00Feeding the Nation on Promises
It has been decre...<i>Feeding the Nation on Promises</i><br /><br /><br />It has been decreed<br />They shall eat whatever<br />Their hearts desire; <br /><br />In the meantime, <br />Let them eat<br />Their hearts out.<br /><br />vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53664716221960339442012-09-03T10:08:02.478-07:002012-09-03T10:08:02.478-07:00Cambridge, Maryland: Whites Join Protest Which Fre...<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1532&dat=19370703&id=xbg9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ysMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2316,6720979" rel="nofollow">Cambridge, Maryland: Whites Join Protest Which Frees Worker (from The Afro-American, 3 July 1937)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com