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On this day in 1912, a riot broke out in Grabow, Louisiana when gunfire was exchanged between organizing lumber workers and private gunmen hired by the Galloway Lumber Company, just one event in the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War. The clash left three union workers and one company gunman dead, wounding an estimated fifty more.

The event took place in the context of workers in the sawmill town of Grabow joining the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (shown), a branch of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union (LWIU), itself affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

On July 7th, 1912, the union workers held a series of rallies at several different company towns, including Bon Ami and Carson, alongside Grabow.

The group that went to Grabow, around 200 people, spontaneously decided to hold a rally with several speeches - labor leader Arthur L. Emerson spoke on top of a wagon to roughly 25 non-union men, plus the additional union men who had come with him.

Shots began between these workers and a group of four others, including Galloway Lumber owner John Galloway, in the local mill office, all of whom had later been found to be drinking before the incident. It is not known for certain which group fired first. Three union men were killed alongside one member of the private company security force. Approximately 50 more were wounded.

Over the next few days, more than more than 60 workers were taken into custody by police. Although the mill owner himself was arrested, he was released without charges soon afterward. Sixty-five of the timber workers' group were brought up on charges ranging from inciting a riot to murder.

The IWW worked to aid the incarcerated workers, with "Big Bill" Haywood fundraising for their legal fund. The trial lasted until November 8th, and its jury returned a not guilty verdict for all of the union men. All of those arrested were set free.

Although they had limited success in Louisiana, the LWIU successfully organized later, winning an eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest after a 1917 strike. Today, there is a historical marker at the site of the riot, located on what is now the property of DeRidder Airport, Louisiana.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Low fluid alarm? I'll give you some fluid you piece of shit. mondays

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
[-] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

realized that I barely look at my passengers when ridesharing. Jason Voorhees could get in my car with a hockey mask and a bloody machete and I'd just be like "so how's your night going?"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I had a weird as fuck dream last night that I was a an actual taxi car in New York and I refused to stop to pick up passengers because I was grossed out by the idea of them crawling inside of me.

Beep beep.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

There's a cronenberg movie in that for sure

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Fun fact, if you ever want to scare Dirt_Owl, body horror is the way to go

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

I hate opening jars "oh you are 6 foot you should be strong enough" my problem is THE FUCKING PAIN from opening it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Saw the new Superman. Refreshingly good movie.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

done workin but now I have to drive home and I don't have any podcasts to listen to this sucks

edit: never mind I haven't listened to the last AMCA yet this one is gonna be so good it's the one where they meet Atris

[-] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

I'm pretty sure a dramatic shirtless rooftop fistfight would fix me inside xi-square-up kiryu-approaching

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Fistfights reallt hurt but a fun grapple can be a low risk good time with pals.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

fist fights are nothing you can't fix with a quick trip to the ramen shop after

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Kiryu giving long Corbyn vibes in that emote

long-corbyn

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

dude I'd be so mad if I paid to eat at the restaurant I was just cookin' at and I knew "how it was made" like lol

I'm in there re-heating risotto, just adding cream and cheese to it basically. I'm in there giving motherfuckers TWO stalks of asparagus to go with their duck breast. You want some scallops? Okay, you get five tagliatelle, FOUR scallops, all mixed into a peppery, asparagus laden sauce. with five florets of broccoli. enjoy your fuckin' dinner

like damn lol if I paid 55 dollars or w/e for "duck breast and asparagus" I would be absolutely livid at getting TWO stalks of it, like, no, come back with my fucking vegetables, asshole.

I bought a whole fucking bunch to make when I got home and wow, I used half of it and made three huge servings! but yeah, let's nickel and dime people on vegetables and call it fine dining jagoff

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

but hey I guess that's how this place can afford to pay me to come help cook for literally eight customers shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Aerosmith goes woke, changes song title to "girl looks like a lady"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

fuck, my gf got Abiotic Factor for me, then I got my brother to play, then her friend got it to play with me and her, so now I have three games going of this fucking thing and nobody wants to play it as much as I do bawllin-sad and even when they do I forget what I was doing because oh this is a different game

[-] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

it is july 10 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

i want to apologize to people that bring guitars to parties uninvited.

i did not know how it is hard to find a fucking script to songs. what the fuck dawg. if you can do a guitar thing live i dont even hate it

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

"Because its fun" is top ten villain motivations.

I love fairies man they do shit like swapping humans with changelings for no real material/power gains reasons unlike say a demon.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

If they go in your butt, they're not edibles.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Tell that to... you know what never mind

[-] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

About to start my vacay and uh... I actually set something up with some old friends? We had a running joke for a while where every new year we'd be like "hey we should hang out" and then someone else would say maybe next year. And it just kept on going like that until one dropped out. After that the remaining two of us kind of kept it going until we had agreed to meet up a couple years ago. That fell through and the dream was pretty much dead.

Since I was going to take my vacay I decided to try and set it up again and, well, to my surprise I was able to get everyone to agree to something next week. I've never really been the friend that invites people out and this past year or so I've been trying as much as I can just because I've grown distant from the friends I used to have that would drag me everywhere. So to finally have some success. Well, fingers crossed that we actually end up meeting up. Need to fill out a few more days, but things are off to a nice start.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

i enjoy the part of breaking bad where the chud DEA agent gets his head ventilated. cant put my finger on it, just something about the cinematography clueless

[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Fuck your efficiency scaping,

I play that shit with my feet

[-] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

The Christ at the temple bit from the Chapo brace episode is one of the funniest bits I've heard on either show

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

margot bingham is a goddamn saint

[-] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

my can opener is a piece of shit. I just wanted to eat some fucking beans but the thing wont fucking do what its supposed to do. I am about to fucking snap because I can't open my beans

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Just imagine how your beans feel.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

It's a little weird that Disney had a formula of just grabbing any random piece of media that had entered public domain and turning it into a musical and making bank, a formula that put them on the map twice non consecutively and they decided based on the failure of like one movie not to do 2d again. But how many of their current projects are just money sinks and they just keep on trucking.
I'm just saying they could have been making a children's musical based on And Quiet Flows the Don by now, and instead they're making another Spiderman, Black Panther and Toy Story.
What they're doing now makes them more money obviously, but it is kinda weird that they just gave up.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Heres a littler peak of the racist shit my older bro posts on Facebook

spoiler


Shit like this is enraging but I dont play into it because I know its purposely supposed to be baiting. His wife is of ~~~~south~~~~ Vietnamese descent and a part of me wanted to say “Would your wife say the same thing about the Viet Cong?” Haha. But Id just rather never say anything to him ever again and let him figure out why

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Trump: Wants American manufacturing to come back.

Also Trump: Let's put a 50% tariff on copper imports with just a three week runway.

NOBODY would EVER build a factory in these ultra-unstable conditions. They couldn't even afford to wire it up for power...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

For the last few weeks my neighbors have been taking bags of trash across the street to another neighbor's bin, after dark, the night before trash collection. I wonder what crime they're trying to hide, lol

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

We got a new toy at work.

spoilerIt's a laser scanning micrometer with one-millionth of an inch precision.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

CW: Drugs (don't worry y'all, still sober (CBD is the hardest thing I ingested today))(also this is going to be ranty because I'm off meds and have consumed a metric fuck ton of caffeine today)

Going off anti-psychotics is such a clusterfuck, but there are some definite fun parts of the withdrawal. The one I'm most well aquatinted with being that it makes drugs fucking awesome. Well, I'm not on drugs anymore, and that made withdrawal extra hard. Normally I would just drink my way out of withdrawal, and that's how I'd handle it, but this time I handled it much more gracefully, albeit still using substances, just substances I personally feel don't breach sobriety (CBD and caffeine so I'm not burying the lead)

I got two hours of sleep last night because of the withdrawal, so I woke up feeling like shit this morning. I was drowsy and getting brain zaps from being off my meds. I felt like I couldn't do anything. But I had to go to work today, so I showed up and got the energy drink we have on tap (free caffeine, yay!). This resulted in me being straight TWEAKED but not in a fun way, I could do stuff but I was having to talk myself into it for extended periods of time. I was doing things faster than normal, but my work sucked. Well, after 2 hours of this, one of my coworkers gave me $20 to get something from the smoke shop next door to help (they were suggesting I smoke some weed again). They had seen me off my meds and on caffeine before, but last time this happened I was still smoking, so they knew I wasn't just on drugs. I must have looked particularly bad, because they asked if I had taken any Adderall before offering me the $20. I took the $20, but as I've talked about before, I can't go back to smoking weed. Out of all the drugs I've been addicted to over the years, it was one of the worst for my mental health. Well I go to the smoke shop, and along with all the other shit I would love to take but refuse to (7-OH, regular weed, Phenibut) I spot some CBD gummies. Took a couple and got back to work.

They brought me right out of the withdrawal for a bit, but not entirely. See, anti-psychotics heavily dampen your dopamine receptors, I still have my dopamine receptors with substantially lowered tolerance. The mix of CBD and caffeine straight up felt like Adderall today. I'm probably typing like I'm on Adderall. I don't even like Adderall that much, but goddamn if it isn't fun to be off the meds and taking (the softest drugs possible) drugs.

I'm taking my first dose of risperidone in ??? days tonight the second I get home (they're waiting for me there) and going the fuck to sleep until I have to wake up for work tomorrow. I'm probably going to be an entirely different person tomorrow morning. But I didn't use this time being off meds, so I actually have nothing but good decisions to come back to when I'm back on the meds. This feels like the opposite of blacking out and regretting your life choices, this is the first time I've felt this way. Literally in a week off my meds I've addressed every major issue that I've been thinking about daily for the past year, and I haven't made a fucking mess of my life. I can't go off risperidone long term without ruining my life, but goddamn if I'm not happy with how this week turned out

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

why are british broadcasters so bad at pronouncing fucking european names jfc

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I wonder if it's deliberate, as a way of slyly saying to the viewer "I'm one of you, you can trust me!"

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

brits as a whole are genetically incapable of learning foreign languages. their default pronunciation of any foreign word/name will be as far away from the native pronunciation as possible within the bounds of english phonology, such is their inherent arrogance

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