Today in labor history January 12 SCABS

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Today in labor history January 12 SCABS

January 12

Novelist Jack London is born. His classic definition of a scab—someone who would cross a picketline and take a striker’s job: “After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles” - 1876

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