PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMiners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down11cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months 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-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoI think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
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.