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Joe Vanderploeg 1884 - 1970

Joe Vanderploeg of Shelbyville, Allegan County, Michigan was born on August 3, 1884, and died at age 85 years old in February 1970.
Shelbyville, Allegan County, Michigan 49344
August 3, 1884
February 1970
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    1884

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    August 3, 1884
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    1970

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    February 1970
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    Joe Vanderploeg lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1884, in the year that Joe Vanderploeg was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1909, Joe was 25 years old when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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