Remember the Battle of the Gravestones in Saylesville
In 1934, during the height of the Depression and one of the largest national strikes in history, 4 unarmed Rhode Island workers were killed by State Police and Militia Men called out by Governor TF Green to protect the Saylesville Bleachery in Lincoln, Rhode Island. It wasn’t a “strike,” he declared, but a “communist insurrection.” [...]
May 5, 1886: The Bay View Massacre in Milwaukie, Wisc.
One topic that has been on my mind lately is the attempt to kill the 8-hour workday. In many places in the private sector, anything less than a 10-hour day is derisively referred to as working ”half-a-day”. Purely by accident, I learned the May 5 is the anniversary of what is called the Bay View [...]
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