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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The lesson there is that it will take workers armed to the teeth to take back their rights. Learn or burn kids

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well when you put it like that, I'd rather learn. I'm not particularly keen on burning kids

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

A renewable resource!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

"Soylent Coal is people!"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Feels like the lesson is if you kill enough labor activists, eventually you'll domesticate the population at large.

West Virginia didn't just become conservative. It fell to an intense siege played out over generations.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Technically, the rights they fought for were given by congress in the later half of the 1930s following widespread peaceful protests.