Friday, May 31, 2013

Supervisors are ordered to Cease Performing Bargaining Unit Work at the Los Angeles Times.

Supervisors are ordered to Cease Performing Bargaining Unit Work at the Los Angeles Times.

Three great union leaders (L) Louis Nicosia, Ronnie Pineda, and Martin Callaghan

Beth Sestanovich resigns as LA Weekly publisher - LA Observed

Beth Sestanovich resigns as LA Weekly publisher - LA Observed

KPCC has more staff photographers than Chicago Sun-Times - LA Observed

KPCC has more staff photographers than Chicago Sun-Times - LA Observed

Friday Afternoon in the Blogosphere





Is The Social Media Editor Dead? - Huffpost Live

It’s Local Media That’s Broken, Not Hyperlocal - Street Fight

State's Broken Enterprise Zone Program Subsidizes Strip Clubs - CLF

Warren Buffett believes in the future of newspapers - The Roanoke Times

Camel Cigarettes Return to Magazine Advertising After Five Years - Ad Age

Google takes top position in global media owner rankings - Zenith Optimedia

Former Ledger manager charged with embezzlement released - Patriot Ledger

Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off All Its Full-Time Photographers - New York Times

Chicago Sun-Times will train reporters on ‘iPhone photography basics’ - Poynter

Growing numbers of people are going mobile on their daily commute - Source Wire

Today in Labor History

May 31  --  Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com

Rose Will Monroe, popularly known as Rosie the Riveter, dies in Clarksville, Ind. During WWII she helped bring women into the labor force - 1997 ~De

Rose Will Monroe also worked in a Michigan factory. In 1944 she was discovered at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Ypsilanti by the popular Canadian actor Walter Pidgeon. Pidgeon, who had starred in various wartime propaganda films, such as Mrs. Miniver (1942), visited Monroe's factory to shoot footage for films promoting the sale of war bonds. When Pidgeon met Monroe, she was working on the assembly line as a riveter of B-24 and B-49 bomber airplanes. Pidgeon's discovery matched a real Rosie with the national ideal, a relationship that received national attention in the promotional films that Monroe and Pidgeon made during the war. Because Monroe appeared as a Rosie the Riveter in these popular films, she is most often identified as the real Rosie the Riveter. In Monroe's New York Times obituary, her daughter Vicki Jarvis states, "Mom happened to be in the right place at the right time" (New York Times, 2 June 1997).

One of nine children born to a carpenter and a housewife in rural Science Hill, Kentucky, Monroe was skilled at her father's trade and defied traditional gender roles from a young age. According to Jarvis, her mother "was a tomboy who could use tools. She could do everything" (New York Times, 2 June 1997).

Like many Rosies, Monroe fled rural poverty to seek employment in more prosperous urban centers. When a car accident claimed the life of her first husband in 1942, Monroe and her two young children left Kentucky and traveled north, to the Willow Run factory. This factory trained female pilots to fly armaments around the country, and Monroe hoped to be chosen for this program. Because she was a single mother, however, she was not selected, and so her career consisted of assembling planes, rather than flying them.

The end of World War II meant the end of Monroe's assembly-line job, as it did for many Rosies. In 1945 she moved to Clarksville, Indiana, continuing to work outside the home for the rest of her life. Monroe held a variety of jobs typically associated with women, such as seamstress and beauty shop owner, as well as the more unconventional positions of taxi driver and school bus driver. Following a stint as a real-estate agent, Monroe realized that she knew how to build homes, so she founded Rose Builders, a construction company that specialized in luxury homes. At the age of fifty, Monroe finally earned her pilot's license and went on to become the only woman in her local aeronautics club. She also taught her younger daughter how to fly. In 1978 Monroe was in a plane accident that resulted in the loss of a kidney, a contributing factor to her death in 1997.
 

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Journey Revisited Playing this weekend



Before we moved into our mobile home two months ago I had preconceived negative views of what it might be like to live in a mobile home or what type of neighbors I would be living next to.  Well my image was far from the mark, and we enjoy living in our two bedroom mobile home. The neighbors are the friendliest people, as most wave hello or greet us with a hardy Buenos Diaz every morning.


The same holds true for tribute bands, many assume they are simply copying other groups and do not play well, this is an untrue notion people have until they experience a great tribute show.


If you’re a regular reader you’re aware that I visit many different venues to listen to tribute bands several times per month, some of the groups leave a lot to be desired, while others draw me in for repeat performances, and a handful I highly recommend seeing in person.




In January I met Jeff Salado in Long Beach, and found him to be extremely friendly and fun to chat with, but I had no idea of his talent. Mr. Salado and his band, Journey Revisited, sound remarkably just like Journey. His band mates are each accomplished musicians, and the mix of their music and Mr. Salado’s voice are very pleasing to the ears.


Most music lovers are aware of the ticket prices The Rolling Stones were asking, tribute bands will cost you almost nothing if the concerts are not free, as many are.


You can see for yourself that Journey Revisited is a must see band this Friday in Victorville, and Saturday in San Bernardino. The shows are very affordable at $5.00 Friday and $5.00 Saturday, not a bad deal for ninety minutes of entertainment.     


The band will depart Modesto Friday morning for the five to six hour drive to Victorville, not certain when the group will make a repeat performance in Southern California, so I suggest you see them this weekend.





Venue Address (Get Directions)
Victorville, CA

Date and Time
Friday, May 31st at 7:30pm

Ticket Details

Crossed-arms photo blogger was the reporter Joe Biden’s office pushed around

Crossed-arms photo blogger was the reporter Joe Biden’s office pushed around

The David Gershwin Daily

Former LA Times Reporter Apologizes for His Role in Gary Webb Tragedy

Former LA Times Reporter Apologizes for His Role in Gary Webb Tragedy

Art.Com Flowers On The Windowsill Framed Art Print By Carl Larsson


Meeker says print advertising is down, but should publishers still be terrified?

Meeker says print advertising is down, but should publishers still be terrified?

Today in Labor History

May 30  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

The Ford Motor Company signs a "Technical Assistance" contract to produce cars in the Soviet Union, and Ford workers were sent to the Soviet Union to train the labor force in the use of its parts. Many American workers who made the trip, including Walter Reuther, a tool and die maker who later was to become the UAW's president, returned home with a different view of the duties and privileges of the industrial laborer - 1929

In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in 2013.05.27history-memorial-day-massacreSouth Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160 - 1937

The Ground Zero cleanup at the site of the World Trade Center is completed three months ahead of schedule due to the heroic efforts of more than 3,000 building tradesmen and women who had worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for the previous eight months - 2002


Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com

In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160 - 1937 ~De
In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States.

Background 

The incident arose after U.S. Steel signed a union contract but smaller steel manufacturers (called 'Little Steel'), including Republic Steel, refused to do so. In protest, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) called a strike.
Incident 

On Memorial Day, hundreds of sympathizers gathered at Sam's Place, headquarters of SWOC. As the crowd marched across the prairie towards the Republic Steel mill, a line of Chicago policemen blocked their path. The foremost protestors argued their right to continue.[1]The police,angered, fired on the crowd. As the crowd fled, police bullets killed ten people and injured 30. Nine people were permanently disabled and another 28 had serious head injuries from police clubbing.

Legacy 

Years later, one of the protesters, Mollie West, recalled a policeman yelling to her that day to, "Get off the field or I'll put a bullet in your back." No police were ever prosecuted.

A Coroner's Jury declared the killings to be "justifiable homicide". The press mostly called it a labor or Red riot. Roosevelt responded to a union plea "The majority of people are saying just one thing, ′A plague on both your houses′"

Today, on the site of Sam's Place stands the union hall of the United Steelworkers and a memorial to the 10 people who died in 1937.

In the book Selected Writings by Dorothy Day (who was present), the events of the protest are summarized thus: 'On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, police opened fire on a parade of striking steel workers and their families at the gate of the Republic Steel Company, in South Chicago. Fifty people were shot, of whom 10 later died; 100 others were beaten with clubs.