Column by George Sibley
Labor – October 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
LABOR DAY will be long gone by the time you are reading this, dear reader, but it’s when I’m trying to write it. “Plan ahead” isn’t in my nature, so I seldom manage to think a month ahead to what’s going to be in the news when this column actually hits the press.
Column by George Sibley
Labor – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
DOES THE LAW apply to money, or just to people? Last issue, I commemorated the centennial of Colorado’s great miners’ strike of 1903-04, when the miners tried to raise that question: If America was a “nation of laws,” then shouldn’t mine owners have to obey Colorado’s eight-hour work day law? But I only managed to get as far as the beginning of the strike in August, 1903. Since the strike went on until late 1904, however, I guess there’s no hurry.