American History

Posted on 24-04-2006

Traffic Jam,
originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking.

The guys that want to strike to make America realize how important they are might be fighting a losing battle. This is the Transportation exhibit at the American History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. One truck and one little sign about trucking and it’s in a traffic jam! And it’s a Werner truck, when the Independent Trucker was the biggest part of trucking back then. Compared to several rooms full of ships and trains. See more of our DC visit on our personal site.

While we were at the American History Museum we walked through the exhibit that showed immigration and how immigration helped industrialize America. Next to that, was a picture of the labor violence that mentioned the government often sent troops to help the companies keep out strike busters. Which reminded me of today’s company’s need for cheap labor and the exploitation of all immigrants, legal and illegal and the government behind the companies, again. It’s always been about power and it will always be about power.

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