Labor Quiz: The Battle of Blair Mountain
Monday, July 30, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Which of the following occurred during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain: 10,000
armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers; private planes
were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners; approximately one million
rounds were fired; all of the above. Click here and you could be
next week’s Quiz winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: Women still make only
77 cents to the dollar men earn in America. Worldwide, "women are paid 18
percent on average less than their male counterparts at work." This pay gap has
persisted without change for a decade. Congrats to Jody Oliver, an AFSMCE
retiree from Cumberland, MD, this week’s quiz winner!