As some of the members of this list may know, The Progressive magazine turned 100 this year. To mark its centennial, its editors have brought out a volume titled Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (University of Wisconsin Press). Among the many treasures in its pages is the section titled 'Standing Up for Labor,' which contains an article from 1913 titled 'The Eight-Hour Day Will Come' by the magazine's founding editor, Robert 'Fighting Bob' La Follette; the 1914 'Anti-Trust Law and Labor: An Appeal to Congress and the Public' by Samuel Gompers; a La Follette polemic from 1920 titled 'The War of Organized Capital Against the People'; a 1932 text called 'Human Wreckage: A Plea for Federal Relief' by William Green, the AFL's second president; a 1938 'Letter to Henry Ford' by Upton Sinclair; a 1981 article by John Kenneth Galbraith titled 'The Work Ethic: It Works Best for Those Who Work Least'; and a 2000 interview with United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.
[url]http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4701.htm[/url]
Danny Postel
Interfaith Worker Justice, Chicago
[mailto]dpostel@iwj.org[/mailto]