On this day in 1919, the United Mine Workers (UMW) initiated a nationwide strike of more than 400,000 coal miners, demanding better wages and a 30-hour week. The U.S. declared the strike illegal while the media smeared workers as communists.
U.S. Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, the same individual behind the infamous Palmer Raids, declared the strike illegal by invoking the Lever Act, a wartime measure that made it a crime to interfere with the production or transportation of necessities.
The law had never been used against a union before, and in fact American Federation of Labor (AFL) founder Samuel Gompers had been promised by President Woodrow Wilson that the Lever Act would not be used to suppress labor actions.
The strike was subject to Red Scare propaganda: coal operators made false charges that Lenin and Trotsky had ordered the strike and were financing it, and some of the press repeated those claims. Others used words like "insurrection" and "Bolshevik revolution". Because of this propaganda and the Attorney General's injunction against the strike, the UMW called the strike off on November 8th.
Many workers ignored this order, however, and the strike continued for over a month, with a final agreement being reached on December 10th. Workers won a 14% wage increase and the creation of an investigatory commission to mediate wage issues.
The US miners' strikes, 1919-1922 - Jeremy Brecher
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what're some alternatives to calling someone a good girl so that the phrase doesn't get stale
Just wondering it's for a project don't ask what the project is
Good puppy, you're doing so good, that's my girl, I'm so proud of you, that clickey noise thingy, etc.
Too petplay ish i think
It's not for petplay β
Check out shakespeare, rumi, joyce, and various other weird perverts of the ancient world for neat things to call people.
she likes rumi hmmm
It's for a university admissions essay, isn't it? I feel like you've got to work multiple angles on it. Like, mention when they're "being good" and give feedback like a stern "No" or a pleased "Good"
My little pog champ
My little pog champ if done with sincerity or just a bare hint of sarcasm would actually work on me lol
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but also sameYou could try other nouns so like 'good slut'. I don't really like the cadence of 'good sub' but there might be something there?