Construction workers on the Empire State Building,
New York, c. 1929 …
And on the Gateway Arch, St. Louis, c. 1964 …
And on the antenna of the Sears Tower, Chicago,
1972.
And it was Mike Mulligan
and Mary Anne and some others who dug the deep holes for the cellars of the
tall skyscrapers in the big cities …
Virginia Lee Burton, Mike
Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
(1939)
These are images you would not have seen at last week’s Republican National Convention. Let’s hope we see images like this when the Democrats take their turn this week.
The
highway is alive tonight
But
nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes
I’m
sittin’ down here in the campfire light
Searchin’ for the ghost
of old Tom Joad …
Bruce Springsteen, “The Ghost of
Tom Joad”
Happy Labor Day.
Good Morning, Dave:
ReplyDeleteAfter Mittmoroni's rally at the mine in Ohio on August 14th it came to light that Murray Energy (of Crandall Canyon infamy) had closed the mine for the day, made attendance by employees mandatory and NOT paid them for the day.
Any member of any union that votes for Mittmoroni and Paulie Wingnuts is a moron.
democommie