On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Friend just started a no-pre-req political class in a generally left-field and it's already devolved to libs frothing about Putin while also lamenting the treatment of BLM. It's an online class and I suggested to them to get ahead and control the early (graded) discussion boards with crypto-communist theory regarding ideology (which y'all kindly helped me helped them with a ton) but ended up toning it way down to avoid getting clocked, or our personal fear of potentially secretly blacklisted from the profession.
Right now they're publicly in a leftist position, lamenting sectarian infighting on the left compared to unity on the right. Let out some feelers to left-sounding people but those people later posted anti-communist stuff from the course materials.
Online class, most things said are going to be on record with full name attached, don't want to accidentally get my friend in trouble but it also seemed like prime territory for making some friends and networking new leftists.
These online class formats seem a good fit for left posters but very dangerous for us specifically since there is a fucking cop attending the class and posts are all on record. Anybody have any experience with this?
I want to ask about potential dogwhistles but we're now thinking of pulling back completely. It's a shame because I want to help agitate (class forum is full of weak libs) and my friend wants to make leftist/queer friends.
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