The New, Young Organizers

Earl is a small, quiet town in the old sharecropping country of eastern Arkansas. But on October 25, 1991, a noisy drama was taking place in the parking lot of Earl Industries, the town’s leading employer. Staging a grim parody of a strike in an effort to scare workers out of voting for a union in the federally supervised election being conducted that day, supervisors from the factory were marching around, wearing company tee-shirts, carrying picket signs, and shouting slogans. Nearby...