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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:19 PM
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I'm beyond angry: 3000 people died in Central Falls RI for us
3000 people rose up during the great depression and charged a textile factory only to be machine gunned down by the factoey owner goons. RI broight back the workhouse. The inmates were starving and so pathetic that people would throw bread over the workhouse walls.

These people suffered and died for us, They made the world a better place. How can we forget this?

I am going to say a prayer and ask God for justice. That's how I am going to remember today.
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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:20 PM
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1. K&R n/t
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:20 PM
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2. Huh? eom
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:21 PM
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3. Got a link?
Never heard of this.
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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:25 PM
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8. Don't have a link but if you want the full tale of horrors
The providence journal ran a full series on the Great Depression in RI. It was not a pretty story. My mothers family came from Pawtucket RI which hit 70 per cent unemployment. Textile mills went south.
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REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:02 AM
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19. My mom's family is from Pawtucket, too. My cousin is one
of the retired cops from Central Falls whose pension is going to be cut in half.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:27 PM
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9. try this
http://riaflcio.org/node/7063
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:45 PM
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17. That said 4 people died and 180 were injured out of 2000 at the strike (nt)
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 09:46 PM by Recursion
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:21 PM
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4. How soon people forget how the bossman treats the worker...
when there is no law to protect the worker....

Bless their brave souls.
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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:22 PM
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5. Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it .....
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 08:29 PM by doublethink
and here we are. ..... K&R.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:05 AM
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21. Maybe, but those who bend it and distort it are no help either.
Sounds kind of dumb to blurt out three thousand people died when it was actually four. I understand rounding up but that is ridiculous.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:24 PM
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6. There ain't no justice in this world. If there were, all these greedy SOB's would be behind bars.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:25 PM
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7. I never, ever forget that the union benefits I enjoy today were bought and paid for in blood.
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 08:43 PM by Brickbat
Believe me, I do not forget, and I do not let my children forget.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:33 PM
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10. +1


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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:35 PM
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11. We will see this again in our lifetime...these fascist motherfuckers are now officialy in charge !
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 08:36 PM by RagAss
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 08:37 PM
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12. Alas researching the hstory of labor
I know that was common and not taught. We need to teach this.

:hi:

Still researching the dang thing by the way.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:04 PM
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13. How much labor history is gonna be in those new history books approved by the TX School Bd?

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liberalla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:18 PM
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14. 4 workers killed and about 180 injured. Is this it?
The Saylesville Massacre
The Great Textile Strike of 1934
The Battle of the Gravestones

http://riaflcio.org/node/7063">Labor Day Ceremony in Central Falls to unveil monument to victims of 1934 Saylesville Massacre

http://www.projo.com/ri/centralfalls/content/RI_LABOR_DAY_09-04-09_8BFJK3N_v16.38af312.html ">Labor Day event focuses on ‘Saylesville Massacre’

http://wrnipoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/labor-history-society-honors-fallen-workers-from-great-textile-strike-of-1934/ ">Labor History Society Honors Fallen Workers from Great Textile Strike of 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_workers_strike_(1934)">Wikipedia: Textile workers strike (1934)
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:20 PM
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15. (Citation needed) (nt)
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:21 PM
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16. I am sorry ..here is another link with complete story
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 09:28 PM by Stuart G
The source is "The Bell Forum"


http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=48397&s=e05c84fadfbdac3b955ef20bc515bc94
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:58 PM
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18. Unrec for false OP.
What you state, never happened.

3000 people never died in any one violent action against Labor in this country, ever.


It is NOT ok to do that, it only negates whatever point you are trying to make.
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:05 AM
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20. Funny how people keep asking for citations after one has been provided
Obviously the OP misstated who died and who was merely gunned down and injured,

or forced to work in the workhouse (not important, so long as they didn't die, right?)
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:07 AM
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22. Some of us cherish accuracy. Some of us just want to rile the blood.
I prefer the former with a small dose of the latter.
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:11 AM
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24. Ah, you're right, the title is misleading. Obviously the OP misread the article he/she is quoting.
Edited on Mon Aug-01-11 08:13 AM by Leopolds Ghost
I wasn't really looking at the title of the thread when I read it. Figured it had to do with Social Security or something.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 03:42 PM
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26. Misstating something by more than an order of magnitude takes a little work. (nt)
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jpljr77 Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:08 AM
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23. Change the title of your thread. It's grossly inaccurate...to the point of being a deliberate lie /n
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tuckessee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 09:27 AM
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25. Why do you feel the need to lie about the number of casualties?
Poisoning the well?

There's more than enough real sacrifice by labor pioneers that there's no need to fabricate outrageous numbers. Maybe you should "say a prayer and ask God for accuracy" before you worry about "justice".
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