A Unionist Remembers

In Long Island City, not far from Manhattan, there are several old, dilapidated factory buildings that once were the site of the plant where 10,000 workers were building the Brewster Buffalo and the Corsair, fighter planes used by the Army and the Navy during World War 11. Then this complex was part of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, a sprawling operation that included a hangar factory, now part of Newark Airport, and another plant in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The Brewster Corporation had...