…railroad law, enacted by the 1905 Wisconsin legislature and signed by Governor Robert M. La Follette, which created a Wisconsin state railroad commission composed of three appointed commissioners with authority…
…company in Cudahy, Wisconsin; mention is made of the bitter strike against the company by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-40 from 1987 to 1989. Costello, Cynthia B….
…country. In 1926 the Menasha Wooden Ware Company was re-formed into two companies, the Menasha Wooden Ware Company (as a personal holding company) and the Menasha Wooden Ware Corporation (for…
…each sponsored by a local committee, based on the student having “shown some qualities of leadership and interest in workers’ education or other community activities” (p. 2); scholarship money was…
…traditions. By Ken Germanson, president emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society, with thanks to Harvey Kaye, Jillian Jacklin, Sergio Gonzalez and Jon Shelton [i] http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2016/09/13/vos-says-speakers-at-uw-campuses-too-liberal/90121674/ [ii] http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/gop-leaders-propose-policy-center-named-for-tommy-thompson-at/article_f5505c37-999c-560d-9bdc-95e0f1340b97.html [iii] https://actionnetwork.org/forms/end-intimidation-of-union-organizers-at-uw-madison [iv] https://www.lawcha.org/2015/12/07/well-just-live-within-our-means-then-a-reaction-to-uw-madison-graduate-school-administrations-proposal-to-restructure-graduate-employee-pay/ [v] http://www.unkochmycampus.org/progress-coalition-2017/ [vi] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/us/koch-brothers-antonin-scalia-george-mason-law-school.html?_r=2 [vii] http://www.chronicle.com/article/Nancy-MacLean-Responds-to-Her/240699 [viii] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449110/nancy-macleans-james-buchanan-libertarianism-book-shortcuts-expose-evil…