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Retired labor union official, newspaper editor/reporter, and community worker. Also community activist.

Month: March 2020

  • When Vanilla Ice Cream Vanished and Hoarding Was Unpatriotic

    When Vanilla Ice Cream Vanished and Hoarding Was Unpatriotic

    No toilet paper to buy?  Nor disinfectant?  Eggs?  Bread? Today’s empty shelves are rarely caused by shortages of the goods, but by the hoarding and over-buying by many panicked American families.  Sadly, this hoarding mentality seems to be growing exponentially; when my neighbor buys several packages of toilet paper rolls, I’m tempted to rush to…

  • Milwaukee unionists of 120 years ago played role in growth of Socialism

    “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. in speech before Negro American Labor Council, 1961. Socialism has become a subject of serious discussion in the United States, likely due to the popularity of…