this cartoon reminds me of upton sinclair who exposed tainted meat in his book the jungle of 1906. ralph nader and upton sinclair were both brought in and given an award for improving consumer safety with food products. one of the events in 1967 that attracted her blocks attention was over charging americans for drugs. sometimes the pharmaceutical industry would charge 4000% of what it cost to produce a pill. not everyone was treated the same. some markets, especially more heavily populated markets paid less for drugs than rural areas. this was a double inadequacy in how things were promoted to people. the caption is look at all the research we have to do. it is hard to imagine today that there was a time when the seat belt was not part of the automobile. in 1967, researchers realized that americans would be a lot safer in automobiles if there was a seatbelt to restrain them during an accident. it would prevent them from hearing the steering wheel and the dashboard and it would reduce injuries. the automobile industry pushed back. the caption for this particular cartoon is, our ali

and upton sinclair, the jungle, we are food and drug laws. and margaret sanger in the middle, the birth control picture, that is something we take for granted today. the area where she was photographed was set down by the police and sanger was sent to jail. rose was active in the campaign for birth control when talking about such things publicly and was against the law. another friend frequently arrested and shown one of the mug shots, the firebrand and all these folks, many houseguests on location, the period of american life when all these people were active was a remarkable time. it was a time, speaking of the years 1900-1914 or so, many people believe the world could be changed and a new and more just society was in some undefined way just around the corner but then something happened that shattered those dreams, the first world war which not only killed some 9 million soldiers and untold millions of civilians but also shattered the radical dream that the working classes a different countries would never fight each other. as you know, whe

boise the latest intellectual of his time and historian, mary harris jones the famous organizer, upton sinclairo whose novel the jungle we owe our food and drug law and as he was writing that book he sent it chapter by chapter to get his comments. they were also friends with margaret sanger the woman in the middle, the birth-control pioneer. of course that is something we take for granted today that the clinic where she was photographed was shut down by the police and sanger was sent to jail. rose was active irose was activn for birth control when talking about such things publicly at the time was against the law. another friend frequently arrested and shown here in one of the mug shot of them uncooled man the anarchists firebrand and all of these folks they knew and worked with, many of them were houseguests on occasion. some of this debate could then left the recollection. the period of american life when all of these people were active is a remarkable time. it was a time coming and speaking of the year sor years o 1914 or so when many people believe that the world could be changed with a new

famous organizer and upton sinclair novel the jungle and as he was writing the book he looked chapterby chapter and also friends with margaret sanger the birth control pioneer which of course if they were granted today but the clinic this was shut down by the police and sanger was sent to jail. acting in the campaign looking at things publicly at that time was against the law. here in one of the mugshots the anarchist firebrand and rosen graham new with more than house guest on occasion and the period of american life that was a remarkable time. 1900 through 1914 when they believe the world could be change. that is an undefined way just around the corner. but then something happened that shatter the dreams. , the first world war which not only kills 9 million soldiers and untold millions of civilians but also shattered the dream that the working class of different countries could never fight each other. of course as you know the united states was not part of it. american socialist another radicals are agitated very strongly for the us to stay out of the war. and with the women's peace

upton sinclair to whose novel, "the jungle," we owe our food and drug laws. as he was writing that book, he sent it chapter by chapter to graham to get his comments. they were also friends with margaret sanger, the burt control pioneer -- birth control pioneer. birth control, of course, is something we talk for granted today, but the brooklyn -- sanger's brooklyn clinic was shut down by the police, and sanger was sent to jail. rose was active in the campaign for birth control when talking about such things publicly at that time was against the law. another friend frequently arrested and shown here in one of her mug shots was emma goldman, the anarchist firebrand. and all of these folks rose and graham knew, they worked with, many were house guests on occasion, some of us left their recollections of rose and graham. the period of american life when all these people were active was a remarkable time. it was a time, and i'm speaking of the years sort of 1900-1914 or so, when many people believed that the world could be changed and that a new and more just societ

>> lawrence, i mean, people today read upton sinclair's "the jungle" to remember a time when workers were treated like human production bits, when they were tossed aside, allowed to give up their lives and their limbs to produce meat. 100 years from now people will watch your monologue from this show to get a sense of what this time was like, where the president of the united states who has refused to use defense production act to produce ppe or tests or anything we need to fight this virus and today said he would use it to make workers work against their will in these meat packing plants without adequate protection and try to strip them of their rights to access to courts to get that protection. this really is a return to the horrible practices of 100 years ago of treating workers like machines, like chattel, whatever you want to call it in a time when we need that president to use that authority to fix our health care system, not fix the meat packing plans. >> thank you both for starting us off tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, there is news

you know, upton sinclair, these are all things that are the tradition of america that are being rolled back. i'm at times surprised because these are hard right-wing republican goldwater views nixon views that are being rolled back, and i don't know. as someone who found that president nixon was pretty good on these issues, it's interesting to see must be -- must be appalled that you could have these tyson food plants where people are just dropping like flies and the answer is, get tough get tough. >> well, there has been a significant change in the republican party over the last 40 to 50 years, i think it's safe to say, in terms of the focus there. >> lord john russell >> yeah, as for our focus, i'll bridge it back to stocks we didn't talk much about the facebook quarter we mentioned it briefly at the top of the show along with microsoft. both of which are up facebook, though, the better performer, up over 6%. let's talk more about that quarter. you like to rate their conference calls i would assume you give it a pretty high rating we're still talking about a company or a stock whose