Good morning.
It’s a cloudy day forecast for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-seven, and a chance of thunderstorms.
There’s a Park & Recreation Board meeting today in Whitewater, at 4 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online.
Today is the anniversary of a labor controversy from 1911, as the Wisconsin Historical Society recalls:
On this date Italian working men, employed by Andrus Asphalt Company in Madison, went on strike and threatened to kill their foreman if they did not receive an increase in wages for laying pavement. The men demanded a 25-cent (a day) raise, from $1.75 to $2.00. To learn more about strikes and the labor movement visit our Birth of the Labor Movement page in Turning Points. [Source: Bishops to Bootleggers: A Biographical Guide to Resurrection Cemetery, pg. 184]