A Life of Labor and Love: A Red Memoir

by Walter Linder

Putting his ideals into action working as a freight handler on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Wally Linder joined the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and Freight Handlers. He later became President and Local Chairman of his local union, and in 1961 was one of the leaders of a strike to save jobs that shut down the New York City waterfront. Wally was a founding organizer of both the Trade Union Solidarity Committee to Aid the Hazard, Kentucky Miners and the Railroad Workers Unemployment Council, and became president of each organization.He was editor of the PLP newspaper Challenge for several years and helped lead PLP's activities in the trade union area.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1797797115
• ISBN13: 9781797797113
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"