Déjà vu in Union Square

Mothers and children re-enact the 19th-century fight for child labor laws in New York City's Union Square on Saturday, May 15. The walking tour performance celebrated the square's formative role labor in union history and involved volunteer union actors and passers-by. The script was written by Dorothy Fennell, a labor historian with the extension office of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Fennell noted that Brian McLaughlin, the president of the New York City Central Labor Council, arrived just in time to sing "Solidarity Forever" with the audience and to thank everyone for coming. "It was a perfect, unplanned ending to a great event," she said. Gary Schoichet