A look back at things we should never forget because of who we are

[Omaha Steve]

Child labor, rights, civil rights, and supporting your friends. I felt today deserved special mention.

June 21

In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hours' instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802


10 miners accused of being militant "Molly Maguires" are hanged in Pennsylvania. A private corporation initiated the investigation of the 10 through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested them, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. "The state provided only the courtroom & the gallows," a judge said many years later - 1877

And this:
June 21, 1877 - Ten miners, allegedly members of the Molly Maguires and convicted as murderers, were hanged in Pennsylvania. Historians question whether the Molly Maguires, allegedly a secret miners’ organization, actually existed. Decades after the hangings, the Molly Maguires became familiar to millions of moviegoers through a film by the same name starring Richard Harris and Sean Connery.

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of unions to publish statements urging members to vote for a specific congressional candidate, ruling that such advocacy is not a violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act - 1948

une 21, 1964 - Civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Federal agents eventually found their mangled bodies; Klansmen and Mississippi police had kidnapped the activists and beaten them to death with clubs and chains.

100,000 unionists and other supporters march in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers - 1997

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_21_2010

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[H2O Man]

2. K & R

[blondeatlast]

3. Big, BIG k/r. nt

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!!

:patriot:

:kick:

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Fuck yeah!

The robber barons and those who support them are trying to take it all back, and they're getting damn close to getting away with it. They must be stopped.

Thanks for the reminder, Steve!

[bvar22]

6. Solidarity!

I can't understand HOW someone can call themselves a "Democrat", and be Anti-LABOR like Blanche Lincoln and her supporters in the Democratic Party.

"Free Trade" is Anti-LABOR.
You can support one or the other, but not both.
They ARE mutually exclusive.
There is NO giant Invisible Hand.


"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone

[FarLeftRage]

7. A HUGE K & R!!!!!!!

+ 1 centillion!!

[Omaha Steve]

8. Kick

[blondeatlast]

9. Proof that even in these troubled times, both in real life and on DU,

there is so much that unites us.

[asdjrocky]

10. Thanks Steve!

And don't forget the Ludlow Massacre.

http://www.umwa.org/?q=content/ludlow-massacre