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Wisconsin Labor Leaders Want Gov. Rusk Portrait Removed

Democrats in Wisconsin’s State Assembly have asked for the removal of a portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk  (left), who in 1886 ordered the state militia to keep peace during the Bay View Rolling Mill strike. Seven people were killed during that strike, and labor unions in Wisconsin have gotten their Democrat friends in the legislature to offer a resolution to take down Rusk’s picture down. "He ordered the National Guard to fire on people who were marching for an eight-hour workday, even though some of those marchers were children," Reuters quoted resolution co-sponsor state Rep. Jon Richards as saying . "He is the last person we should be honoring in the state Capitol."

The resolution, introduced on October 3 as Assembly Resolution 13, has nine cosponsors. The resolution states that "the assembly chief clerk shall remove the portrait of Jeremiah Rusk from public display in the assembly chamber, including the parlor, galleries, lobbies, offices of the speaker, majority leader, and minority leader, and hallways." The effort to remove the portrait began many years prior to this October.

Source: The New American

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Reuters - Dec 31, 1969

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Wisconsin Labor Leaders Want Gov. Rusk Portrait Removed

The New American - Dec 31, 1969

John Jagler, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, replied: “We have bigger things to be talking about.” Democrats are trying to link Governor Rusk's actions 125 years ago to present Governor Scott Walker's moves to limit what could be