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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 10:20 AM
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One picture tells.... Women’s Day Massacre in Youngstown, Ohio on June 19, '37
Edited on Sun Jun-19-11 10:34 AM by Omaha Steve

Labor: The great equalizer against the monopoly of the rich!

http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history



The Women’s Day Massacre in Youngstown, Ohio, when police use tear gas on women and children, including at least one infant in his mother's arms, during a strike at Republic Steel. One union organizer later recalled, "When I got there I thought the Great War had started over again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots flying and flares going up and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life..." - 1937


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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 10:24 AM
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1. Those days are returning, and we are going to have to refight these rights all over again.
Edited on Sun Jun-19-11 10:26 AM by Brickbat
We need more than waiting every two or four years for an election to come around and hoping our candidates will change things for the better. Take it easy, but take it!
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 10:27 AM
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2. Hate to say it - but your probably right
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jdadd Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 11:48 AM
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3. Count me in, Brother!!
P.S. I like your user name....:hi:
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 08:09 PM
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12. We stand together!
:toast:

(And it's Sister. ;))
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jdadd Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-11 12:00 PM
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13. OOps,,,,Sister
:dunce: :toast:
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 06:26 PM
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10. I agree wholeheartedly...
one day the blinders are going to fall off- it is still a ways off yet, I think, but it is coming.
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ej510 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 11:51 AM
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4. A lot of Americans hate unions, but do not know the history of unions and what they fought for.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 05:29 PM
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6. And How Much They Bled And Died... So That We Didn't Have To...
we took it for granted, and now may have to pay the piper.

:shrug:

:hi:
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 06:29 PM
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11. 30 years of brainwashing...
a whole generation has grown up being told how evil unions are. I have never been in a union, but when youngins start running their mouth, I gently inform them of the things we take for granted that people bled and died for. It is a good opportunity to suggest they read "The Jungle", also.
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 05:25 PM
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5. Kick

I'm home from the CWS day game. I'll be back online after dinner.
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 05:40 PM
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7. K&R
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SaveNC Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 05:55 PM
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8. I live and work in North Carolina, about as anti-union as it gets.
Edited on Sun Jun-19-11 05:57 PM by SaveNC
Thanks for posting.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-11 06:09 PM
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9. K&R
Solidarity!
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