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Labor History Group Members Featured In Labor Day Video
Explore Labor Battles Past, Implications for Today
Greater New Haven Labor History Association Vice President Dorothy Johnson and Communications Director Anson Smith are featured in a Labor Day video produced by the Western Connecticut Area Labor Federation. Dorothy talks about experiences as a local labor leader while Anson talks about the birth of anti-labor, mass-media propaganda in a 1936 strike in Middletown, CT. The strategies and tactics developed there were used in the battle for the Taft-Hartley Act 11 years later, and many are still in use.