Connolly became commander of an irregular Citizen Army set up as a workers' defense force in November 1913.
But it's also possible that the severe angst is limited to relatively small communities of interest: federal workers, defense contractors, service providers who depend on government grants.
These were female sex workers, defense forces, police force, pastoralists, truck drivers, intercity bus drivers, road construction workers, teachers, factory workers and people in ANC catchment areas.
Ultimately, the article is an attack on lower-class, service-industry workers in defense of upper-class, white collar workers not wanting to part with a few dollars to tip; four of the ten arguments in the article are directly linked to disliking a perceived pressure to tip or the fear of over-tipping.
They were soon followed, in quick order, by workers at defense electronics companies, avionics makers and, ultimately, by the restaurant workers and retailers that served the devastated business districts.
Concerning the environment, poverty, racism, workers' rights, defense spending and a slough of other issues, the lifelong consumer advocate accused politicians and business of failing the country.
Eleven workers at defense contractors that help supply combat helicopters to the Pentagon have been charged in a scheme to get security clearance at the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, officials said yesterday.
When prosecutors attempted to argue in court this month that protesters had "intent" to conspire against and impede government workers, the defense pointed out that public officials had not come to the refuge and formally ordered the activists to leave.
Nov. 19: Boeing pink-slips 800 workers at defense facility in Kansas.
Notably, the House Republicans who've signed on as sponsors appear far more uncomfortable with the shutdown than their tea party colleagues, since they represent districts heavy with federal workers and defense contractors who've already been hit by sequestration.
