From Labor Strikes to Logo Strikes
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle.” -Eugene Debs speaking to striking engineers and firemen during the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1887 “Ugh! Hideous and cheap looking. I will never shop there again.” -Just one of tens of thousands of online comments when Gap revealed their new logo When thousands of people went online protesting GAP’s new logo claiming they would go on strike and boycott the clothing chain, it parodied an earlier era regarding America’s Labor Movement. In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New…
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From Labor Strikes to Logo Strikes
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