"50 cents donation to Campaign Fund Against Anti-Labor "Right to Work" Proposition No. 18. All net proceeds from this donation to revert to Campaign Fund against Prop. No. 18.

Sequoia Park, Labor Day, September 1, 1958. 12 NOON.

Labor Day Celebration Committee Central Labor Council of Humboldt & Del Norte Counties, AFL-CIO."

So the rat bastards were active against labor. Maybe they were different republicans than the ones who wanted to GOTV among union members in the OP.

RBInMaine

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7. They were more moderate, on the whole, back then. Today's R's are NUTS.

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hollowdweller

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8. My Grandad Was A Labor Organizer

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Mon Nov 4, 2013, 11:14 PM

Nov 2013

He was a republican.

My mom said he used to go to the south all the time to organize and a couple times he was attacked. Once his car got run off the road.

Once 2 guys tried to drown him.

He died in the late 60's and I think he would have felt bad when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers, but he also objected to a lot of the wildcat strikes of the late 70's in our area.

He was one of the old time republicans that believed in workers rights and stuff but not a lot of welfare or anything. Also he was an agnostic, not particularly religious so he probably would not have liked the whole evangelical movement joining the party.

bemildred

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9. Quite. nt

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 02:20 PM

Nov 2013

question everything

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10. Henry Ford, who was not known as bastion of liberalism

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 02:25 PM

Nov 2013

declared that he wanted to pay his workers a wage that would enable them to purchase what they were producing.

I doubt that today's Walmart workers can purchase at the store without a discount, on occasions.

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