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Author: D. L. Dennis Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc. ISBN: 1618130927 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 237
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In the early 1900s, in a small Midwestern village, local townsfolk were terrorized by uncontrolled violence. Those responsible for law enforcement either turned in their badges or disappeared. A set of unusual circumstances brought Charlie Witwer and his three brothers to the village to make the streets safe. The Witwer Files is a story inspired by actual events and tells how the lives of those involved were forever changed by the events that took place in two short years. It takes the reader through the struggles of the Witwer family to make a new life in a community divided against itself by an even that almost destroyed the lives of three generations--a trial for murder!
Author: D. L. Dennis Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc. ISBN: 1618130927 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
In the early 1900s, in a small Midwestern village, local townsfolk were terrorized by uncontrolled violence. Those responsible for law enforcement either turned in their badges or disappeared. A set of unusual circumstances brought Charlie Witwer and his three brothers to the village to make the streets safe. The Witwer Files is a story inspired by actual events and tells how the lives of those involved were forever changed by the events that took place in two short years. It takes the reader through the struggles of the Witwer family to make a new life in a community divided against itself by an even that almost destroyed the lives of three generations--a trial for murder!
Author: Donald L Dennis Publisher: ISBN: 9780990839378 Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Witwer Files is a story inspired by actual events and tells how the lives ao those involved were forever changed by the events that took place in two short years. In the early 1900's, in a small Midwestern village, local townsfolk were terrorized by uncontrolled violence by a gang called the "river rats." There were unsolved murders and alleged suicides. Those respoonsible for law enforcement either turned in their badges or disappeared. A set of unusual circulstances brought Charlie Witwer and his three brothers to the village to make the streets safe. The book tells how the lives of those involved were forever changed by the events that took place in two short years and takes the reader through the struggles of the Witwer family to make a new life in a community divided against itself by an event that almost destroyed the lives of three generations.
Author: Robert Bussel Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252097602 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as "total persons" interested in both workplace affairs and the exercise of effective citizenship in their communities. Working through Teamsters Local 688 and viewing the city of St. Louis as their laboratory, this remarkable interracial duo forged a dynamic political alliance that placed their "citizen members" on the front lines of epic battles for urban revitalization, improved public services, and the advancement of racial and economic justice. Parallel to their political partnership, Gibbons functioned as a top Teamsters Union leader and Calloway as an influential figure in St. Louis's civil rights movement. Their pioneering efforts not only altered St. Louis's social and political landscape but also raised fundamental questions about the fate of the post-industrial city, the meaning of citizenship, and the role of unions in shaping American democracy.
Author: Glenn Dyer Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469682087 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 233
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An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Rank-and-file members of numerous unions caught a "strike fever" as they challenged the entrenched power of some of the country's most powerful politicians, employers, and union leaders in a wave of contract rejections, wildcat strikes, and electoral campaigns. Workers in unions across New York wanted more than better contracts: they contested control of the work process, racism on the job, and workers' place in America's socioeconomic hierarchy while implicitly and explicitly demanding greater democratic control of their representative organizations. Some initial challenges were effective and succeeded in delivering better contracts and unseating undemocratic leaders. However, those early successes were short-lived. Glenn Dyer traces the way workers were met with employer recalcitrance and union attacks that proved too powerful to organize against. In the face of this resistance, workers retreated into a survivalist attitude of accommodation and resignation, contributing to the decline of social democratic New York and working-class power in the city. Ultimately, Dyer argues, the failures of the rank-and-file organizing efforts in New York City, which was the biggest center of organized labor in the country, shows how stunted workers' aspirations and numerous defeats not only uprooted the foundations of New York's uniquely social democratic polity but also ushered in a national era of increased working-class subservience that has resonance today.
Author: David Witwer Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1620974649 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 303
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The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case, prize-winning authors David Witwer and Catherine Rios explore American labor history at its critical turning point, drawing on FBI case files and the private papers of investigative journalists who first broke the story. A narrative that originates in the garment industry of mid-century New York, which produced over 80 percent of the nation's dresses at the time, Murder in the Garment District quickly moves to a national stage, where congressional anti-corruption hearings gripped the nation and forever tainted the reputation of American unions. Replete with elements of a true-crime thriller, Murder in the Garment District includes a riveting cast of characters, from wheeling and dealing union president David Dubinsky to the notorious gangster Abe Chait and the crusading Robert F. Kennedy, whose public duel with Jimmy Hoffa became front-page news. Deeply researched and grounded in the street-level events that put people's lives and livelihoods at stake, Murder in the Garment District is destined to become a classic work of history—one that also explains the current troubled state of unions in America.
Author: D. L. Dennis Publisher: Pacesetter Publishing ISBN: 1618132792 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 147
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Jenny, born with a deformed foot, is left at the Anderson Calvary Orphanage as an infant. As she grows she brings love and joy to all and sometimes seems to be involved in unexplainable and miraculous events. She develops a relationship with a mysterious old man named Christopher that no one understands except Jenny.
Author: Tom DeMichael Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1495009580 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 433
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Many science fiction movies from the last 40 years have blazed new vistas for viewers. They've reached further into the future, traveled longer into the past, soared deeper into the vastness of the cosmos, and probed more intently inside man's consciousness than any other period of film before. And audiences ate them up, taking four of the top ten spots in all-time ticket sales in America while earning more than $2 billion at the box office. Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ takes a look at the genre's movies from the last 40 years, where the dreams of yesterday and today may become tomorrow's realities. This FAQ travels to a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... visits a theme park where DNA-created dinosaurs roam... watches as aliens come to Earth, hunting humans for sport... and much, much more. Filled with biographies, synopses, production stories, and images and illustrations – many seldom seen in print – the book focuses on films that give audiences two hours where they can forget about their troubles, sit back, crunch some popcorn, and visit worlds never before seen... worlds of robots, time travel, aliens, space exploration, and other far-out ideas.
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