Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921
Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921
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The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history
And I had never heard of it. Although I'm not American.
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It's crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.
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Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
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Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
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They really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
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I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It's just a mixture of "Glossing over" and "Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it's the right one"
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I think they mean that the "Wobblies" and the "Pinkertons" just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
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