[Marxism] Another important 200th birthday: Abraham Lincoln

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In a message dated 2/12/2009 1:22:19 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
markalause at gmail.com writes:
I wasn't going to be the  first to mention this, but thanks to Lueko
for doing so...

While  visiting his son his New England early in 1860, Lincoln was
asked about the  claims of Democratic politicians that the antislavery
agitation had hurt the  region's trade with the South and caused the
great shoe strike that February  and March.  This was the largest in
American history to date, with about  17,000 strikers, several thousand
of whom were women.  Lincoln's  response was that he knew nothing of
the shoe trade but thanked God for a  system in which workers were free
to organize and  strike.

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Bravo for you. 


WL.  

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