The rabbit holes we could go down with this 😉 https://twitter.com/doft_com/status/1350226895284027392
So, Navistar used to be called International Harvester. US govt originally owned this massive factory, GM operated it during WWII where Buick built aircraft engines. Govt sold it to IH after the war
IH was formed in 1902 by the merger of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co, Deering Harvester (from whom Chicago’s South Deering neighborhood gets its name) & several other companies
McCormick’s mechanical reapers helped revolutionize agriculture in the 19th century. The company’s massive Reaper Works at Western & Blue Island in Chicago attracted immigrants like the Germans who built St Paul’s, “the church built without a nail,” nearby
McCormick’s hostility towards labor unions & workers’ demands for an 8-hour workday lead to the Chicago Haymarket Riot, which inspired the Communist May Day, which lead to Pope Pius XII declaring the May 1 the feast of St Joseph the Worker
So the next time you’re driving past the old Navistar plant on North Ave in Melrose Park, invoke St Joseph’s intercession 👍
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