Today's Labor Quote: Lane Windham

"How should we structure our social compact? What should the rules be? The moment is right to revisit that and to have a new conversation and this time we can build one that centers working people, that centers working families and their communities, and that addresses some of the structural racism, structural sexism that we've had in our current system."

Windham is Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative, which is hosting the Constructing a New Social Compact forum (see above) 

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living! Last week’s show: Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas. 

The U.S. House of Representatives passes House Joint Resolution No. 184, a constitutional amendment to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. The Senate approved by the measure a few weeks later, but it was never ratified by the states and is still technically pending - 1924

On the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seizes the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward & Co. after management defies the National Labor Relations Board - 1944