30 YEARS LATER, GARBAGE MEN IN MEMPHIS EMBODY HISTORY

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 3, 1998| Author: Wil Haygood, Globe Staff | Copyright information

MEMPHIS -- The average citizen just wanted the garbage picked up.

And the average garbage man just wanted the mayor and everyone else to know that his dignity wasn't on the ground with the maggots and the flies and the potato peelings he had to pick up every day.

In 1968, in this town, the garbage workers went on strike. They were making $1.55 an hour. They didn't have sick leave. They didn't get vacation. You could attend a relative's funeral all right, but you'd have been smart...

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