Anthony Stewart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in saluting the labor unions for what they once meant to the dignity and power of working people like the keeper’s crane-operator father.
For a long time, Labor Day meant a fishing weekend with John Lawton, Madison labor attorney being cut short—even from the great Wolf River, as John returned to give a speech at the Madison Labor Temple. There was never a doubt in John’s mind about the priority of that speech over a trout-producing fly hatch. The keeper might have questioned the priority, but John never did.
