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County workers strike over wages, health care
July 18, 2002CHICAGO – After working for six months without a contract, 4,000 Cook County employees walked off the job on July 11 for a one-day strike. The workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and...
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County workers strike over wages, health care
July 18, 2002CHICAGO – After working for six months without a contract, 4,000 Cook County employees walked off the job on July 11 for a one-day strike. The workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and...
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Book gives Mother Jones her due
July 18, 2002Mother Jones: Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform, By Dorothy L. Wake In the words of an IWW poet known as “The Paint Creek Miner”: “How they fear her, how they hate her, hate her...
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Book review: Its not when you die, but how
July 18, 2002When I started Richard Wright’s book Uncle Tom’s Children, I expected it to be much like Black Boy, which I had read as a child. But this work, a collection of five mid-length stories, was nothing...
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A peoples look at baseball Summer 2002
July 18, 2002Recently we lost Ted Williams, probably the greatest pure hitter of all time. During his playing days he bore the brunt of abuse from the press for his disdain for them and his obvious self-confidence. What...
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