Schniderman to Receive Joe Hill Award at GLAE Concert Sunday
Friday, June 22, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The lifetime achievements of local labor leader
and activist Saul Schniderman will be in the
spotlight at Sunday night’s Great
Labor Arts Exchange concert (7p,
Conference Center at the Maritime Institute’s
Auditorium Building #3 ), as Schniderman (at right)
is awarded the Joe Hill Award. The
Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who
have contributed to the successful integration
of arts and culture in the labor movement. Schniderman,
president of AFSCME Local 2910 at the Library
of Congress, has a long and colorful history in
labor culture work, including singing in the
labor song trio Folkworks, founded in 1975 to
support the Washington Post pressmen, editing
Talkin’ Union, a journal of labor folklore,
music and history, from 1980-1988, participating in the USA Labor
Culture Tour of Sweden in 1994. He directs the
Inventory of American Labor Landmarks, a
project of the Labor Heritage Foundation, where
he’s also served as President, and is on the
advisory board for the DC Labor FilmFest.
Pablo
Davis, Detroit artist/activist and
assistant painter of the world renowned
“Detroit Industry” mural by Diego Rivera at
the Detroit Institute of Arts, will also
receive a Joe Hill Award Sunday night. - photo of
Schniderman courtesy of the Labor Heritage
Foundation