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AMERICA IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP

AMERICA IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT WE ARE DOING TO OURSELVES.AS MORE AND MORE OF OUR PLANTS GO SOUTH, AND IMPORTED ITEMS SEEM TO BE THE MAIN STAY OF OUR AMERICAN STORES. HERE ARE SOME THINGS FISH HAS SEEN IN LIFE.   THE FIRST JOB FISH HAD WAY BACK ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO WAS A REAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR HIM. FISH WORKED IN A FACTORY THAT MADE BASKETS,PICNIC, CLOTHES HAMPERS AND SUCH.THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT HAD WORKED THERE A LONG TIME.ONE DAY MANAGEMENT DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD CHANGE THE WAY THINGS WERE MADE. AS A RESULT A GENTLEMAN WHO HAD WORKED THERE FOR A LONG TIME, NO LONGER FIT INTO THEIR NEW WAY OF DOING THINGS,AND HE WAS FIRED. NOW IN 1960 IF YOU WERE OVER 45 AND DID NOT HAVE A JOB YOU WERE NOT GOING TO GET ONE. SO WITHOUT REGARD OF HOW MANY YEARS HE HAD GIVEN THEM THEY JUST  FLAT OUT FIRED HIM.   THE NEXT JOB FISH HAD WAS AT A FACTORY THAT HAD A STRONG UNION. THERE FISH SAW THAT IT WAS ALL A GAME. THE WORKERS TRIED TO GET BY DOING AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND THE MANAGEMENT TRIED TO MAKE THEM DO MORE AND MORE.   SOMEWHERE IN HERE THERE HAS TO BE A MIDDLE GROUND. FISH'S OLDEST SON WORKS AT A PLANT THAT GIVES THE WORKERS THE PRAISE DUE THEM, THEY HAVE THE BEST BENEFITS, ALSO THEY EXPECT A GOOD DAYS WORK FOR A GOOD DAYS PAY. THEY HAVE NO UNION AND DO NOT WANT ONE.    I WANT TO THANK MY MOTHER AND FATHER FOR SHOWING AND PASSING ON TO THEIR KIDS THE GREAT WORK ETHIC THEY HAD. MY FATHER WAS A COAL MINER, OIL FIELD WORKER, HORSE TRADER, FARMER, MILL WRIGHT CARPENTER,ELETRICAN,PLUMBER, BRICK LAYER ,AND ANYTHING ELSE REQUIRED TO BUILD A BUILDING. ALSO HE WAS A PREACHER MAN AS WELL AS FATHER.   MY MOTHER WAS A MIDWIFE, BARBER, CANNER, QUILT MAKER, NURSE, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO MILKED THE COWS, MADE SURE WE HAD THE GARDEN PLANTED AND GOT EVERYTHING CANNED FOR WINTER. IN ADITION TO WORKING IN A FACTORY WHILE TAKING OF HER AILING MOTHER.                 GUESS WHAT FISH IS TRYING TO SAY IS WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE WORK ETHIC OF OUR FORE FATHERS. AND BIG BUSINESS REALLY NEEDS TO TREAT THE WORKERS WITH RESPECT DUE THEM.   IT SADDENS FISH TO SEE ALL AROUND HIM HOW THE WORK ETHIC IS GOING.IT JUST SEEMS TO BE A BIG GAME IN LIFE.NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT THEIR FELLOW WORKERS AND IT SEEMS THAT WE ARE REVERTING BACK TO THE OLD PHILOSOPHY OF BIG "I" AND LITTLE "u"     ON THIS LABOR DAY LETS REMEMBER ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. IT WAS NOT ANY ONE GROUP BUT ALL TOGETHER. THE DOCTOR, PLUMBER, NURSE, FARMER, FACTORY WORKER, COAL MINER, POLICEMAN, FIREMAN AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST OUR GREAT CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS. IT  TAKES ALL OF US TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT. LETS NOT GIVE IT ALL AWAY. IT'S NOT JUST A JOB!

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