It's a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of…
Posts published by “Dick Meister”
Like every other fan of the National Pastime, I've looked forward with great anticipation to the new baseball season. But I know it won't possibly…
I hope we can all pause and reflect on the extraordinary life of a true American hero on Tuesday (March 31). It's Cesar Chavez Day,…
Finally, serious steps are being taken to curtail baseball's deadly chewing tobacco habit — proposed legislation that would ban its use throughout California beginning next…
The Fourth of July, as we all know, is Independence Day. Hurray for George Washington and the revolutionaries, down with King George and the British.…
However the new baseball season turns out, it won't possibly match my favorite season of all time. That's the season of 1950, the year that…
Labor Day. Time again for politicians and union adherents to praise organized labor. Time again for others to pontificate about the supposed decline and growing…
The country's 2-million-plus home care workers have been waiting a whole year now for President Obama to make good on his promise to grant them…
Election's over, the good guy won, so what now for working people? Labor's wish list for our re-elected president and the new Congress is long,…
OK, it's time to celebrate Labor Day, time to celebrate the labor movement that won a wide range of benefits for working people. That includes,…