Posted on 07/05/2002 10:20:02 PM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The mills have been closed since 1986, replaced by a sea of big box retail development and parking lots known as the Waterfront.
Save for a row of smoke stacks and the Homestead Works pumphouse, the site of one of the most notable events in the region's history and the history of the American labor movement looks nothing like it did in 1892.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Libertarian advocates of cheap immigrant labor sow the seeds of further U.S. decline into socialism.
And upon leaving the union, DeBolt's father started his own company...
And the "cheap immigrant labor" was supposedly good for the unions, according to the article, but we also know that eventually the unions re-established themselves and the steel industry died.
I'm against "cheap immigrant labor", and for a moratorium on immigration. But thats not exactly what this article is about.
DeBolt's grand-father, I meant to say...
Why would it get pulled?
The 'Rats have abandoned blue collar work force in favor of the welfare state: gubmint workers, teachers, social workers, Medi-scam leeches, enviro-whackos & homos.
The GOP is proving itself to be "the stupid party" by failing to pursue the unrepresented blue collar worker. (These are the "Reagan Democrats" that the current GOP leadership chooses to ignore - with predictably dismal results.)
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