Day 31 – August 1995 – Issue 3: As Godzilla lies, possibly dying, as a giant bat-creature from space arrives on Earth looking for food. Professor Yoshiwara has been arrested because Godzilla’s blood has been tainted with the poison she created and is contaminating the environment. She had also developed an antitoxin for the poison which the governments want to help people possibly affected by contact with Godzilla’s blood. Bagorah arrives and battles with Cybersaur. Bagorah is a very cool creation. It is more bat-like than Batragon from the Marvel series and looks like a predecessor to the mutated bat in Godzilla the Series (1999). There is also an uncanny resemblance between Bagorah’s face and that of Cloverfield (2008). Story by Kevin Maguire. Cover art by Arthur Adams.
Day 35 – December 1995 – Issue 7: While the Dianii hunt Godzilla, Colonel Cameron and his soldiers take over the Dianii ship with a member of G-Force and the TV reporter in tow. In homage to the Showa era movies, the Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens (Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla 1974) make an appearance. Story by Arthur Adams. Cover art: Arthur Adams and Kevin Maguire.
On this day, 21 May 1941, a strike began of actors in Norway against Nazi occupation. Many actors, who were unwilling to perform after the Nazis took over broadcasting, had previously signed a secret pledge to go on strike if any artist was fired for political reasons. Six actors refused to work on the radio when ordered to by Nazi authorities including Tore Segelcke, Lillemor von Hanno, Gerda Ring and Elisabeth Gording (pictured, clockwise from top left). On 21 May they were summoned to Oslo police HQ for interrogation, and all had their work permits revoked. That evening, workers walked out, shutting down every theatre in the capital. By the following day, the strike had spread to Bergen and Trondheim. The Gestapo began threatening the actors, but they voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike. On 24 May, German authorities gave an ultimatum to the workers, and began arresting union representatives. But even after this, and being threatened with the death penalty, the strike continued for 5 weeks. In the wake of the dispute, the Nazis decided to take complete control of theatres, but the general public had no interest in fascist “entertainment” and so boycotted them.
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When Courtney Hering started working at Kohler Co. seven years ago, she was continuing a long family tradition.
“My mother, she’s been here 39 years,” she says. “My dad worked here for 14 years. And my grandfather on my dad’s side, he worked here as well.”
Best known for its bathtubs and kitchen fixtures, Kohler has been turning out solid products and solid jobs near the Sheboygan River in Wisconsin for nearly 150 years. Hering joined the company after a stint in the Marine Corps in North Carolina. She got a job in Kohler’s distribution center, moving finished faucets and unfinished brass. Her starting pay was about $11.50 an hour.
It was only after she’d been working there for a couple of years that Hering realized something startling: Many of her colleagues doing exactly the same work were paid nearly twice as much as she was. “It made me realize, ‘Oh man, this is a huge gap,’ ” Hering says.
That gap was a hangover from the Great Recession, when workers lost negotiating power and companies found a way to reduce wages. It’s also one of the pieces of the puzzle that help explain why wages stagnated for years, even as the economy came roaring back.
In 2010, Kohler adopted a two-tiered wage scale, and workers like Hering, who were hired after that, were stuck for years on a much lower track for both pay and benefits.
A lot of companies made similar moves during the recession — most notably the big U.S. automakers. With the economy in free-fall, workers didn’t have much power to resist.
2-Tiered Wages Under Fire: Workers Challenge Unequal Pay For Equal Work
Photos: Sara Stathas for NPR
Statue of Sekhmet
Standing statue of the warrior goddess Sekhmet in her sanctuary in the Temple of Ptah at Karnak.
Night Killer will be released on Blu-ray on June 25 via Severin Films. It was originally distributed in its native Italy as Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, despite being completely unrelated to the franchise.
The 1990 giallo/slasher hybrid is directed by Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2), with gore reshoots helmed by Bruno Mattei (Hell of the Living Dead). Peter Hooten and Tara Buckman star.
Night Killer has been scanned in 4K from the original camera negative. Special features are listed below.
