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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 :workerworker

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Gonna give my kid a slavic name they'll never be able to pronounce correctly. Other kids will ask them how to pronounce it and they'll cry

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I'm at the hospital accompanying a close relative who just had bariatric surgery. Two observations:

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Last night I dreamed that I was talking with a bunch of friends about how I had helped them cheat in our exam, and I got ambushed by the professor, who was listening in on the convo. He gave me my exam back and he had taken off half the score. But in the dream I found the situation so funny that I didn't even get mad.

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I'm reading The Hierarchies I don't know anything about the author. So far it's quite good! It's about a sex robot. The trans allegory is very very clear- at one point the main character delights in "passing" (as a human woman)

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I went on a date and it was nice and fun and we wanted to go out again, but I am so very mentally ill that I do not think I have the capacity to see them very much :'(

I have a very hard time all day every day and when I talk to this person they're like "what's up with you how's your day? :)" and the true answer is "I am fighting for my life surrounded by utter darkness" but like I just don't think that's hot so I think I should just spare this person the trouble and worry only about myself for a while

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Pretty funny that amerisettlers can't definitively explain where California, Oregon, or Arizona got their names. Real retvrn hours

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Well I have covid now so that sucks. I'm pretty in shape and just feeling mildly bad so it's all good but other than drinking ginger what's the ways you've helped get over it.

Also, anyone know the updated timeline for returning to work without killing my co-workers? I'm up to date with all the vacs and I will be wearing a mask but I have some important shit to do next week that I can't put off.

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nsfwWow being more confident in my sexuality plus a little more comfortable with my body has kicked my brain into full panting panting panting mode.

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lathe-of-heaven Warren Buffet (or some billionaire) dies and every furry artist on the internet sees their commissions drop by half

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It sucks that even when you have a job you don't actively hate that makes you enough money you're still constantly worried what would happen if you lost the job or if you had any kind of emergency. I was at the lowest of low points when I lucked into this job, I don't know what I'd do without it.

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Thats where im at but its starting to lose whats great about it, everything gets enshittification.

I saw a cute Italian man on Tiktok make a sandwich and I smiled. I think this means I'm no longer a certified leftist. Where do I turn in my vocel badge and exchange it for an individual toothbrush?

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Gonna track down the son of a bitch who told me the world was macaroni. That's not what Steve Harwell would of wanted you sick fuck!!!!

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if any hexbears want to join the genzedong matrix server y'all are welcome, it's a chill group

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Chatgpt suggested Ethan Hawke as Trotsky for an imaginary KPD vs SPD Weimar Germany black humor drama movie, I'm fascinated by that choice

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Got a raise, most of the raise goes to the government now though πŸ‘

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Anyone here play with virtual machines?

Are there repositories of saved systems that you can download and run on your own VM? I want to run windows 7 on one but I also don't want to go through the process of updating it manually now that it's out of service.

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