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Workers First Caravan set for June 3 in DC
Over a thousand cars are expected to join the Workers First Caravan next Wednesday in Washington, DC. "The time has come for action," says the AFL-CIO, which is coordinating the effort with a number of affiliated unions. Since the AFL-CIO adopted the [link removed] 5 Economic Essential Goals, "tens of thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected with Coronavirus, millions of working people have lost their jobs, and an entire nation has become infected with fear and uncertainty." [link removed] RSVP here for the June 3 caravan, which will gather at 11a (location TBA) before proceeding to the U.S. Capitol. "It is time for us to fight for the 5 Economic Essentials here in Washington and around the country," said the AFL-CIO.

NATCA organizes food drive in NoVA
"Shout out to the folks at NATCA (National Air Traffic Controllers Association), which coordinated a food drive out of NoVA Labor to help our unemployed sisters and brothers," reports NoVA Labor president Virginia Diamond. The NATCA food drive was led by Brian Schmelzel along with numerous volunteers. "We didn't count individual pieces but every table in the NOVA Labor Federation office was piled two or three feet high," said NATCA retiree Matt Sullivan. Unite Here Local 23 is working with NATCA to coordinate the delivery of the food to laid off workers at Southern Towers in Alexandria, the center of the "cancel rent" movement.

Union Voice/Readers Write: Hoover's henchmen
"Eisenhower and McArthur had the responsibility for carrying out Hoover's orders against the Bonus Marchers," ([link removed] Today's Labor Quote 5/26 ), writes Steve Shapiro.

Today's Labor Quote: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Must we go on in many groping, disorganized, separate units to defeat or shall we move as one great team to victory?"

After [link removed] signing the National Industrial Recovery Act into law in 1933

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This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: "Politics of the Pantry"; "We Just Come to Work Here"
"This period of time in the Thirties struck me as a period of great innovation and resilience that women organized around the need to provide certain services. And I see that happening in my community today around the pandemic." Emily Twarog, author of "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth Century America." Her study of how women used institutions built on patriarchy and consumer capitalism to cultivate a political voice resonates strongly today in the midst of both the COVID-19 pandemic and an election year. Joyce McCawley talked with Twarog on the Heartland Labor Forum, the labor radio show airing weekly in Kansas City on KKFI.
Plus: Ben Grosscup with a new version of "We Just Come to Work Here" and Joe Glazer on the Memorial Day Massacre.
[link removed] Last week's show: "The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland"

The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, about a month before it was set to expire - 1935

- David Prosten

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