A state law was enacted in California providing the 8-hour day for most workers, but it was not effectively enforced - 1868
Transportation-Communication Employees Union merges with Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees - 1969
United Farm Workers of America granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1972
(Farmworker’s Friend: The Story of Cesar Chavez is a thoughtful and moving book about the inspiring life of American hero Cesar Chavez, founder and long-time leader of the United Farm Workers of America. This sympathetic portrayal of Chavez and his life’s work begins with his childhood, starting from the time his family’s store in Arizona failed during the Great Depression and his entire family was forced into the fields to harvest vegetables for a few cents an hour.)
Working Class Heroes
Remember
this next time you walk up to the ticket window of your local movie
theater with $10 in your hand. The Media (Accidentally?) missed this
one!!!! Please read this: The troops oversees would like you
to send it to everybody you know.
Subject: Denzel Washington, and
Brooks Army Medical Center. Don't know whether you heard about this but
Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army
Medical Center , in San Antonio , Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This is
where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be
hospitalized in the United States , especially burn victims.
There are
some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel
where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their
soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses
on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the
time.
While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of
one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to
build. He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount
right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this
story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it
warmed their hearts to hear it.
The question is - why do: Britney
Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and other Hollywood
fluff make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel
Washington's Patriotism doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of
any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio . A true
American and friend to all in uniform! This needs as wide a distribution
as we can create. Please share it!
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