PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMiners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down11
arrow-up1318arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squaretehsYs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 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-up51·2 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-up28·2 months agoIts crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 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-up6·2 months agoThey really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 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-up9·2 months agoI think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
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.