The Great Depressionn - Rioting

[iamthebandfanman]

just a reminder that our troubles are not new ones..

[Fridays Child]

1. It's a good thing that history never repeats itself.

/sarcasm

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Even then there were people who were blind loyalists...

The same types we have today who act like the rich boss is somehow a truly blessed and god-like figure. You should kiss the ground where they have tread and you shall be rewarded both in this life and the next.

......right up until they too are fired.

And people wonder why there are cases where former employees go on a rampage.

[defacto7]

2. I wanted to hear what they were earning ...

by July of this........ then it cut out.

[ErikJ]

3. He said that by 1958 they were earning 12 cents more a day 60 cents more a week than in 1937.

[defacto7]

4. So he was going to repeat what he said earlier

only define it as in July of his year. OK. It just cut off and I thought I was missing something. I like to put those kinds of historical numbers in perspective. Thanks.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Mining companies were incredible in their exploitation....

Those that paid in actual cash saw that cash loop back to them in housing, clothing and food purchased at the company store. Others gave up the pretense altogether and paid in their own script that was only good at the company store so you were trapped in that life until you could no longer work and then you were cast out.

[jtuck004]

7. I notice he said "Industrial Unions" - which were separate and distinct from the

Business Unions that, in collaboration with business and the government killed off, destroyed, or subsumed the Industrial Unions and led us to where we are today.

Reading their history from about 1865 to the period you see above is damn instructive. Mother Jones, Bill Haywood, James J. Matles - will give you a bit of the education that was removed to create the propaganda most people are taught, if they are are taught much of anything about labor.

Thank you for that.

Here's another...for anyone who wants to know how we get out of servitude, watch the scene where this guy eats for the firs time.