PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMiners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1330arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1329arrow-down1imageMiners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·3 months ago 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.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·3 months agoIt’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.
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 months agoIts crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoLived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoThey really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoI 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”
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoI think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
And I had never heard of it. Although I’m not American.
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.
Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
They really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
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”
I think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.