Labour History News
Labor Writings from The Progressive
As some of the members of this list may know, The Progressive magazine turned 100 this year. To mark its centennial, its editors have brought out a volume titled Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (University of Wisconsin Press). Among the many treasures in its pages is the section titled 'Standing Up for Labor,' which contains an article from 1913 titled 'The Eight-Hour Day Will Come' by the magazine's founding editor, Robert 'Fighting Bob' La Follette; the 1914 'Anti-Trust Law and Labor: An Appeal to Congress and the Public' by Samuel Gompers; a La Follette polemic from 1920 titled 'The War of Organized Capital Against the People'; a 1932 text called 'Human Wreckage: A Plea for Federal Relief' by William Green, the AFL's second president; a 1938 'Letter to Henry Ford' by Upton Sinclair; a 1981 article by John Kenneth Galbraith titled 'The Work Ethic: It Works Best for Those Who Work Least'; and a 2000 interview with United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.
www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4701.htm
Danny Postel
Interfaith Worker Justice, Chicago