@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 14 hours agoMiners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921imagemessage-square18arrow-up1283arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@SanctuslinkEnglish25•13 hours agoIts crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish11•13 hours agoLived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish10•12 hours agoI mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It’s just a mixture of “Glossing over” and “Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it’s the right one”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•8 hours agoI think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
They really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It’s just a mixture of “Glossing over” and “Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it’s the right one”
I think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.