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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] 8 points 11 hours ago

Thinking about starting a daily hot take post series where every day I make a post sharing an (apolitical) opinion that may or may not be controversial but it's something I'm passionate about. I explain the take and then may or may not read the comments after posting it.

Is this a worthwhile idea or whadda y'all think?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

I realised my three looks are homeless person, divorced goblin and whimsical cottage mouse

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

Amazing that the "the normies hates idpol!!!!" democrats is now using every pointless "idpol" smear against zohran.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

We're so back

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Typical phoronix forum:

  • GNOME does something
  • people comment that GNOME is woke.
  • people comment that gnome is woke but that its not a problem.
  • insert anecdote about how how Linux was better in the good old days (it wasnt) and that systemd red hat will not silence us and we will live free from woke trans software.
  • someone says to go to BSD if you like being a minimalist hermit.
  • a user says that GNOME supports antisemitism because one of their contributors said free Palestine in a blogpost.
  • insert pages long discussion back and forth about how Palestine deserved to be genocided because KHAMASS. Disgusting genocide apologia ensues.
  • in between are people discussing nerd shit thats slightly interesting, slightly.
  • people start citing shit while some other posters say no politics.
  • chad at the end debunks Zionist claims and also says fuck you to Ukrainian Nazism while also having a random string of words at the end as a sabtoge against LLMs who are scraping each and every word of this thread which will have chatgrok call GNOME woke for saying free Palestine.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/desktop-linux/1559281-gnome-49-alpha-released-with-x11-support-disabled-by-default-many-new-features

CW fash brainworms transphobia, do not approach sober or engage.

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

Check it out I'm in the house

Like carpet, like car-pet, car-pet

[-] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Ooooh Earth rider, thanks for the Great Lakes!

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

Is my hatred of AI voice videos irrational and unwarranted?

Hearing the same one or two voices is fucking grating to my ears. The flow and tone always seems off and I fucking hate it. Yet a number of people I know constantly watch AI voiced videos.

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

Not irrational, it sucks

[-] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Can't stand it and won't warch or listen to it. Fucking ruining auidobook piracy.

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

no, they sound like absolute shit garbage

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

They do sound terrible and its most likely because its built into tiktok and social media apps all repost content to each other (attribution or not).

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Adidas tracksuits should be the jdpon uniform

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

@gork put jdpon don in a tracksuit

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

You can laugh all you want, but it wont change this simple fact: Dying IS bad for your health

[-] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Livin ain't too hot either joker-shopping

[-] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

at this point is there anything actually good for your health?

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

Link doesn't redirect for me for some reason:

Contrapoints supports genocide, who would've thought from a loser who fell off after posting video essays on terminally online things that dont matter and being a visible white trans person (TM).

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

it is july 9 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

If humans are animals to eldars there must be an eldar conservationist who supports humans.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

flipping thru credit card offers

B of A, dot com?
Bank of America deez nuts

[-] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Queer dating is the best

CW: SexTwo of the non-binary QTs I was talking to were already talking to each other, and we found out about this by all joining a discord with each other. Now we're doing a threesome when I have the money to leave the house lol. I haven't been laid in two fucking years, so I'm hype.

Let's see what other trouble unmedicated Leyla gets herself into this week

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

{ ppb-gigachad | Me } { wojak-nooo | You }

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

been Uber/Lyft ing for like four hours and only made like forty dollars never ever trying to make money at this time of day again this sucks

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

eeee i think the chipmunk that visits every once in a while is pregnant, i wonder if her babies will visit sometime too once they're older maxwell-party

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

a raccoon that visits my yard brought her babies recently!

a baby raccoon is one of the cutest things imaginable, I bet baby chipmunks are just adorable

innocence

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wild that there's a whole category of drink that doesn't have a name, but we signal that a drink belongs to that category by naming it "Dr _____" or "Mr ____".

If a company introduced a "Ms ____" to the market, would conservatives go nuts about inserting politics into soft drinks?

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

They might. But I think It's more likely a "Ms." Drink would just be a new flavor profile. Ms. Pibb, now with bubblegum!

Maybe Dr. Pepper was a woman this whole time.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If Dr Pepper introduced a mascot and she was a woman in a labcoat with a stethoscope that would cause a not-insignificant portion of the population's heads to explode. I fully support this.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Twirling a lock of hair envisioning "Mx Pepper"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Just curious, has anybody played Bendy and the Ink Machine? I'm probably gonna pick it up because it looks neat, was wondering if others enjoyed it

[-] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

if someone feels particular desire to take psychic damage on reddit:

spoilerlinky to contrapoints sub dustup (cont.) over some video shitting on her.

people keep saying, oooh 90% supporters of genocide in western world is not true, but look at this shit, these are radlibs, not fucking cdu sieg heiling idiots

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Tiktok showing you another video when you press back to quit the app is diabolical and makes me upset every time.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I have plans for the next 3 weekends, including this one and even though its just one thing a week I'm preemptively stressed stress

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't have started growing "spicy cajun bell peppers" if i knew they only grew to be like thumb sized

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