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To: MichCapCon

We truly live in a bizzare world. This moron completely ignores the bigoted history of the labor movement. In the late 1800s, the labor movement did not admit blacks and advocated laws to stop low wage blacks from taking work from higher wage, unionized whites. One of the most prominent pro-union laws, Davis-Bacon, was passed to keep non-union blacks from working.


15 posted on 01/31/2013 8:56:20 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Beat me to it. Historically, unions excluded blacks and tried to keep the from competing individually at lower wages.

I bet if checked Unions today, they would still be mostly white. The only exception would be the government workers unions...


16 posted on 01/31/2013 9:21:42 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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