To the Editor

To the Editor:

The celebration of Amy Hallingstad Day reminded me of an experience my dad told me about. Gordon Jensen was twelve years old and working in the cannery before the days of child labor laws. It was a warm summer day and there were a lot of fish in. He was pushing cans into the retort when he noticed everyone was leaving the fish house. He followed them and sat on the dock with all the workers. Amy had called a strike and he remembered that management argued with her and shouted at her for hours as the sun got hot and the fish got ripe. She would not give in and the workers were be...