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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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago*

    From very Tall bart on twitter. Nice to see another meme smith being on the right side of history.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Can't stop thinking about how computer hobbyists are all anticommunist, some credulously and some with oafish severity, while every chip and circuit they've ever touched and ever will comes from Chinese fabrication lines, and if the US ever seriously tried to challenge Chinese power they would never see an upgrade again. Very funny to me.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Totally very important thing I just discovered: John Cena follows Hasan on Twitter, but they are NOT mutuals. Hasan does NOT follow John Cena back.

    ALSO

    Chen Weihua and Jeremy Corbyn follow John Cena on twitter, this is less important than Hasan snubbing John Cena.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only person allowed to use cryptocurrency is fitgirl repacks

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    Okay I've worked at my company for 11 months without ever having my employee status be questioned and then after I got a face piercing, I've gotten security called on me/been badge checked by random co-workers 3 times in the last 2 months what the fuck

    Silicon Valley stalin-gun-1

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Expecting a knock on the door to receive & sign for an expensive computer part, I get the notification it's delivered and find a very roughed up box that was thrown in the general direction of my door

    Thanks for overworking your delivery drivers, DHL

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "I'm bladerunner." -Bladerunner from blade runner

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Man Always Gets Little Rush Out Of Telling People Disco Elysium Developers Are Communists

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    It's fun to hear how the same people who told me Ukraine can't be Nazi because they have a Jewish president are also telling me the anti-Israel protests are anti-semitic, even if they are organized by Jews.

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    HEART BREAKING: Local Trans Woman Forced To Put Clothes On In Order To Go To Mail Box To Pick Up New Plushy

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thinking about when I stocked groceries, the way to clock in was through a fucking finger print scanner. Who installed that? What loser was like yes this is what we need.

    My fingerprints are stored in the food lion database of cucked workers

    I think they got a bad scan or something on me tho cause that shit never even worked right in the first place

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wish my insurance covered my summer dentist appointment like both websites say it does instead of me owning these assholes a whole paycheck

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Disco Elysium spoilerJust got called a LIB by the old communist survivor on the island lmao

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    HOT SINGLES HAVE BREACHED THE PERIMETER!!!

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    It would be nice to get away from everything and just not have to worry about things for like a day or two. That would be reallly nice

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    Yeah I stand for the flag

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    My landlord is an absolute bastard, claiming with a fake looking letter we owe 6 months of rent when we owe 3 at most

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    been eating a lot of oats lately
    might be possessed by a horse

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    meow-coffee my current (hopefully last) hotel room overlooks a commuter rail station and some construction

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    13 minutes of cozy vibes in bed remaining

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    geordi-no mental health day

    geordi-yes mental breakdown day

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Israel shouldn’t be compared to Russia, Biden admin says, as civilian deaths soar

    Biden's right, Russia isn't killing civilians at nearly as high a rate.

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    Cool minor internet interaction 2: On my friends discord server I have this lib that I've been slowly working on because he seems open to radicalization in some ways, and awhile ago I showed him that thing with Biden supporting building the wall right? And today I posted the thing with Biden supporting basically banning pro-Palestine protests on college campuses. And said friend said "well based on that thing with the wall I'm not surprised". So idk I thought that was cool because the first thing got through to him.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Please to report today that Mr. Softie has a clean butt no more poop.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Deeply amusing thing a discord edgelord said to me:

    "What fucking r***** doesn't remember a argument they had months ago"

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Electric ranges should have weight sensors such that they shut off if you leave them on accidentally

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    deeper-sadness I went down a pant size before this whole mess and now I have brand new jeans that don't fit because I bounced from stress eating and drinking

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Trying to find a new Mastodon server. It makes me feel kind of bad that the leftest server I could find that is decently federated also has a strick no MLs (tankies) rule. They all do. It's pathetic.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Management love to publish ethical guidelines and technical best practices then not give you enough time to do it properly.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    > watching a movie

    > heartbreaking scene

    > wipe off tear

    > high five my friend because they said the name of the movie

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    it is november 1 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Protip: take turns spiraling so you can be there for each other

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    Tired of everything, I dont want to work anymore just practice and play music. Like I love music and practicing but doing both full time has to be affecting me somehow.

    I have a decent full time job and i feel like im always struggling to keep things together. I hate this country so much. A regular person should be able to get by fine here, its that everything is subject to greedy assholes and enshittification. Can we just do what makes sense?

    It must of felt so god damn good as a regular person to strip the Romanovs of everything. In what world can you be comfortable with your child receiving all the things they could possibly need to succeed while others freeze and fucking starve.

    Also fuck cars, did you guys know they let any idiot drive a death machine? And you are also are subject to whatever tantrum they have no matter how dangerous or stupid it is.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Apolitical paraglider grillman who hates Zionists because they act really annoying against paragliders.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    My partner's mama wants to come visit us soon 🙂

    She's an old lady with lots of mental health issues and a whole slew of ignorant prejudices around race and sexuality 😶

    She apparently doesn't know I'm trans 😬

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If October 7 was like 15 9/11s, how many 9/11 equivalents have we had in the Gaza strip counting children alone?

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    ~408 9/11s

    (8796 dead with 2.048 million population)

    Idk if im correct though. Not exactly a math nerd.

    spoilerDeaths on Sep 11/U.S. Pop in 2001

    3000/285000000=0.00001052631

    Israel Civilians Dead/Israel (excl West Bank and Gaza) Pop

    1427/9136000=0.00015619527

    Israel's 9/11 count=>0.00015619527/0.00001052631 = 14.838 (~15)

    Gaza Civilians Dead/Gaza Pop

    8796/2048000=0.00429492187

    Gaza 9/11 count=>0.00429492187/0.00001052631=408.01780206

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