As my brother William and I enjoyed our ice cold shaved ice
in the searing heat I noted a couple entering the music venue area, and knew
this was Larry Cornwall, with his flowing long dark hair and a bit of a swagger
in his step. Wearing an artsy type of shirt, that he mentioned his wife
designed, the couple stood out from the crowd.
I had planned to see and hear Larry’s other venture, Alice in Cooperland, this Friday at The National Orange Show, 689 South E Street, San
Bernadino at 7:00 p.m., but unfortunately forgotten my daughter Lauren bought
Dodger tickets for myself. The cost is only $5.00 per person with children 10
and under free, and there is no cost for parking.
Alice in Cooperland is a tribute to Alice Cooper, whom had
the number one album Billion Dollar Babies in the early 1970’s, and back in the
day Alice Cooper was very controversial and shocking to some standards.
Alice in Cooperland is composed of excellent musicians that
will not only please your ears, but also entertain you with their theatrical
presentation using guillotines-swords-dolls-girls-ghouls-zombies-Frankenstein-scrims-
screens and spiders! Along with five musicians the group also employs three
actors and blasts from the CO2 machine filling the stage with fog.
The band consists of:
Larry Cornwall Vocals-AliceJeff Schofield-guitar
Rob Lontok-Bass Guitar
Jeff Page-Drums
Michael Jacobson-Keyboards
Ten
thousand strikers at Toledo, Ohio’s Auto-Lite plant repel police who
have come to break up their strike for union recognition. The next day,
two strikers are killed and 15 wounded when National Guard machine gun
units open fire. Two weeks later the company recognized the union and
agreed to a 5 percent raise - 1934
The
“Little Wagner Act” is signed in Hawaii, guaranteeing pineapple and
sugar workers the right to bargain collectively. After negotiations
failed a successful 79-day strike shut down 33 of the territory’s 34
plantations and brought higher wages and a 40-hour week - 1945 
[
hour,
signed cards demanding representation by the Industrial Workers of the
World, or Wobblies. Management roadblocks continue to deny the workers
their union to this day - 2004
Black
labor leader and peace activist A. Philip Randolph dies. He was
president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and first black on
the AFL-CIO executive board, and a principal organizer of the 1963 March
on Washington - 1979
for
supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis,
where workers were striking for a nine-hour day. A lower court had
forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing
to obey the judge’s anti-boycott injunction - 1906
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