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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My friend said this other dude she's into (she's also kinda into me, it's whole thing) is a better cook than me (i asked, lol) and Im Kinda Annoyed by That. She's all "oh he puts peanut butter in everything and makes it all African spiced, it's amazing, etc etc"
Im 99% sure she just appreciates the novelty of flavors present and Im actually The Better Cook but whatever, if I'm not then I will be
anyway it's made me want to go whole hog on some kind of unholy fusion of African, Korean, Thai and French cuisine, like, make a rub with gochujang, peanut butter, lime juice, various seasonings that I will figure out as I go. I was thinking of doing like, beef skewers like that, and then maybe make like a carolina barbecue sauce type sauce but like thicken it with a roux just to make it inherently cursed
Apparently people have already thought to mix gochujang and peanut butter based on these recipes im seeing online for gochujang peanut sauce for noodles