Here, the milkman got through this morning for the first time in six days.

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To his distress as he threw the red, sauced up blighters out of the door as the milkman strolled past.

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So if you know someone is likely to walk up your garden path, like the milkman, and you know it's slippery, you must take reasonable steps to clear it and grit it if necessary.

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Just as he took a job as the first black milkman in Mobile, Ala.

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But that image is growing stale, according to Ruth Milkman, the director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations.

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Milkman says the labor movement took note.

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After leaving school at 15 the bookmaker's son had a variety of jobs, among them milkman, gardener and apprentice garage mechanic.

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In fact, Milkman says, studies show foreign-born workers are more receptive to joining a union than the native born.

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