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Omaha Steve

(103,330 posts)
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 09:16 PM Nov 2015

11-10-15 The Benevolent Dictator in 2:00


http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/november-10-the-benevolent-dictator/




November 10, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1933. That was the day that Hormel plant workers in Austin, Minnesota began a sit-down strike. Company head, Jay Hormel, boasted that his company was a benevolent dictatorship. Workers agreed that the company was a dictatorship but not very benevolent.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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