After the Gold Rush

[H2O Man]

7. Unions coomunism!!!!

My father used to tell me of the struggles that his generation, and the one before him, had when they tried forming unions. Our family had a lot of people working on the railroads -- hardly rare for Irish immigrants. The more insightful among them recognized that the owners sought to pit the Irish against the Italians, and local history is full of donnybrooks -- to use Dad's word. Thus, the struggle to unionize, to protect everyone's rights.

I think "the owners" are doing much the same today.