On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radić was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Radic became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943 while organising a rescue of around 150 women and children attempting to escape the fascists.
At the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life if Radić gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”
The executioner subsequently reported that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”.
The Yugoslav partisans eventually successfully defeated the Nazis the fascist Ustashe regime.
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For months, the BLET and other unions had pushed for fifteen paid sick days for rail workers. Currently, railroaders get none. In those final hours before their strike deadline on September 15, the union agreed instead to accept three unpaid sick days, with thirty days notice, to be taken on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
With Dennis Pierce standing next to him in the oval office, Joe Biden told the press, “They feel good. These guys, by the way, they’re still standing but they should be home in bed. Twenty straight hours [of negotiations]. I want to thank business and labor.”
Pierce then advocated for his membership to support the deal. “Contracts between the railroads and their employees have never had sick time,” he said in a separate interview. “There are a lot of industries don’t have that in their contract.” Asked if he would support the deal, Pierce replied, “I probably would.”
Pierce was indeed able to get the contract ratified, but it may have cost him his job.
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