Intermarket Basket-Carrying Derby

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 12, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, 1930s

Happy Labor Day 2023!

I'd love to know if the umbrellas were practical or symbolic.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 04, 2023 - Comments (4)
Category: Holidays, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers

Miss Union Label

I thought this was fitting for Labor Day Weekend!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 02, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, 1950s

League of Exotic Dancers On Strike

These Hollywood strippers, members of the League of Exotic Dancers, refuse to work because "the low wage scale of $95 at week" they receive when they take time off. They are (l-r): Champagne; Daurene Dare; Jennie "The Bazoom Girl" Lee, president of the league, Rusty Lane; and Novita.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 24, 2022 - Comments (4)
Category: Entertainment, Dance, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, Burlesque, Exotic Dancing, Stripping and Other Forms of Staged Nakedness, Public Indecency, 1950s

Booth Babes vs. the Teamsters

Source.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 19, 2021 - Comments (2)
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Conventions, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, 1970s

The Tight Pants Strike of 1966

The media called it the Tight Pants Strike. Also, the Battle of the Bulge.

In 1966, 35-year-old Pat Morris was working at International Paper’s plywood plant in Oregon when management suspended her on account of her tight-fitting pants, complaining that they were too distracting for male workers. Morris protested that other female workers were also wearing tight jeans. Nevertheless, according to her, “They said something about being too stacked and sent me home.” (Almost every paper in the country felt obliged to report that her measurements were 39-27-39.)

Even though she wasn’t in the union, the 315 union members at the plant promptly went on strike in protest, claiming that the suspension was illegal. The strike lasted a week, until Morris was allowed back to her job, wearing looser jeans.

(left) Cincinnati Enquirer - Aug 26, 1966; (right) Esquire - Jan 1967

New York Daily News - Sep 4, 1966

Redlands Daily Facts - Aug 31, 1966

Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin - Sep 1, 1966

Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 21, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Riots, Protests and Civil Disobedience, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, 1960s

Good Aim

This video has started doing the rounds on social media. A demonstration of the art of precision tree dropping.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 28, 2015 - Comments (7)
Category: Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers

Garbage Dreams

Read more here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 21, 2010 - Comments (1)
Category: Movies, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, Work and Vocational Training, Middle East

Anti-Plumber’s-Butt Shirts

The Duluth Trading Company specializes in unique "longtail" shirts that help alleviate the problem and social ill of "Plumber's Crack." They've obviously invested much thought in the matter, as you can see from this schematic of the problem. But useful and practical as such shirts may be, there's simply no excuse for Plumber's Butt Playing Cards.

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Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 05, 2008 - Comments (7)
Category: Business, Products, Fashion, Games, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, Public Indecency