WICHITA, Kansas — On Aug. 25, 1922, in a headline for an article in the weekly labor newspaper, the Plaindealer, George T. Ashley posed a question to Wichita union members: “Will organized labor survive or perish?”
Just a few years after the end of World War I and the start of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, of which the first cases in the United States were recorded in Kansas, Ashley wrote that organized labor was then experiencing its most critical period.
Read Full Article »