LHA Vice President Dorothy Johnson and Communications Director Anson Smith, were featured in a Labor History video produced by the Western Connecticut Area Labor Federation. In the video, Johnson recalls the trials and tribulations she underwent as a local labor leader while Smith discusses 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.
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