70 Year Magazine Archive

Why I’m For Right to Work

by Lafayette A. Hooser

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He’d be working on the railroad yet except for one thing: he crossed the union bosses and that, under the B&O’s union shop pact, meant the Brotherhood could get him fired.

Betty and I were married in 1941. I joined the Army and was soon stoking engines all over England—and, before it was over, I had hauled everything from tanks to troops across Normandy and even into Germany, sometimes under artillery fire.

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