OpinionSeptember 4, 1998
LETTERS: FFORTS TO GET UNION ARE RECALLED
To the editor: I read Edward Smith's letter about the unions. I went to work at the shoe factory in 1959 for 25 cents an hour. We didn't get medical care or vacations with pay or holidays or overtime. In 1940, Ellis Baker and I helped get a union. We could talk to the company without being fired. With the help of the unions and President Roosevelt, we got better wages and all the other things people should have, but without the union, we wouldn't have, including Social Security and Medicare...
MINNIE SANDERS
To the editor:
I read Edward Smith's letter about the unions. I went to work at the shoe factory in 1959 for 25 cents an hour. We didn't get medical care or vacations with pay or holidays or overtime.
In 1940, Ellis Baker and I helped get a union. We could talk to the company without being fired. With the help of the unions and President Roosevelt, we got better wages and all the other things people should have, but without the union, we wouldn't have, including Social Security and Medicare.
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It wouldn't have happened if it were not for people like Ellis Baker, Howard Slinker and myself. They would have had a harder time like we did before we got the union. This is why we have Labor Day now.
MINNIE SANDERS
Cape Girardeau
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