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Author: Erik Loomis

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GE’s Taft-Hartley Comic, 1947

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On September 3, 2015
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the Maryland labor activist Bill Barry in hunting this up and putting it into a PDF...

ATI Lockout

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On September 2, 2015

Last week, I wrote about the ATI lockout of their union mills. Wanted to highlight this issue once again. The United Steelworkers held a big rally in Pittsburgh yesterday to.

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The Enemy Within

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On September 2, 2015
I was lucky enough to be sent a copy of The Enemy Within (in Britain it is going by Still the Enemy Within). This is a powerful documentary on how Margaret Thatcher busted the coal miners' unions in the 1980s. If this is of interest...
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Tianjin, Texas

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On September 1, 2015
Above: The 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion There's been a lot of media discussion over the past week about Chinese workplace safety conditions because of the Tianjin explosion that killed more than 150 people and spewed toxic material into the air. The problem is...
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Creeping Lochnerism

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On September 1, 2015
Above: The victims of the Triangle Fire, i.e., the libertarian vision of America's future Brian Beutler's piece on libertarians' goal to return the U.S. to the Lochner Era through the courts should scare you. It's hardly news to political junkies that libertarians seek to destroy...
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