Curtain falls on Providence Newspaper Guild Follies
               

Had Carol Young been a more battle hardened union leader she would have understood that after a bitter strike NOTHING will have a healing effect on a tragic CLASS divide. There are decent individuals on both sides but GROUP THINK will always prevail here where there are antagonistic economic interests.

 

Some " talented " employees resolve the contradiction by crossing over to management. There has been a bipartisan attack on organized labor since the early days of the Reagan era. So " Comrade Bob Kerr " was right about the numbers not being there anymore.

                   But there are also cycles . And the ghost of ORGANIZED LABOR past will whisper : " Sometimes we come back ! 

Bob Kerr, We'll Miss You | Rhode Island Public Radio

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 [Sep 2, 2014 - Bob Kerr, the Providence Journal's eloquent everyman and the newspaper's marquee columnist for more than two decades, has been laid off by the ProJo's new. ... One of the founders of the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies, Kerr entertained the audience for many years as `Lonnie Love' a fictional ...]

 Bob Kerr -looking like Fidel Castro