Moe, Remembered
October 31, 2003
Feisty, fiery, irascible, crusty, blunt, and tough — all terms used on the national stage, and with regularity, to describe Morris “Moe” Biller, who died Sept. 5, 2003, in New York. Moe was described in such ways for most of his 87 years. But those...
Newspaper Union Survives 150 Years of Changes, Then All But Disappears
June 30, 2003
In the middle of the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg combined his knowledge of molten metal with a colleague’s wine press to create the first publication to rely on reusable type. The German goldsmith’s invention of “movable” type launched both a...
Labor Organizing Changed the Hawaiian Islands Forever
April 30, 2003
The birth of the Hawaiian labor movement was a painful experience, marked by a number of failed job actions on the islands’ sugar-cane plantations over the course of 50 years. The largely Asian workforce learned bitter lessons from several failed...
Dolores Huerta
February 28, 2003
While almost everyone is familiar with Cesar Chavez, relatively few know the name of Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the United Farm Workers Union.
The Alliance That Began With the Brotherhood
December 31, 2002
As the civil war divided the nation figuratively, transcontinental rail travel brought it together literally. The nation’s railroad system also brought together for the first time Black workers and the labor movement. From that alliance, several...