The Herrin Massacre began on this day in Herrin, Illinois when striking coal miners looted ammunition and guns from a hardware store and laid seige to their mine, filled with strikebreakers, killing twenty-three people.
The violence took place in a coal mining area during a nationwide strike by the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA). Months prior, the UMWA had called a national miners' strike. The owner of the local Illinois mine, W.J. Lester, negotiated with the union to allow his mine to remain open and for miners to go back to work, as long as no coal was shipped out.
By June, over 60,000 tons of coal had been dug up and Lester decided to break his agreement and attempted to sell the coal. Early in the morning of June 21st, a truck carrying Lester's guards and strikebreakers was ambushed near Carbondale, Illinois on its way to the mine. The union miners marched into Herrin, looted the hardware store of its firearms and ammunition, and laid seige to the mine.
The strikebreakers working in the mine surrendered to the union workers firing on them and were captured as prisoners. Despite promises of safety, they were brutally tortured and massacred by the union miners. Twenty-three workers were killed, most of whom were members of the strikebreaking group. W.J. Lester, the owner of the mine, made a significant profit from selling his mine after the massacre occurred, in order to avoid lawsuits
The nation reacted to the massacre with disgust. One newspaper editorial said "Herrin, Illinois should be ostracized. Shut off from all communication with the outside world and the people there left to soak in the blood they have spilled."President Warren Harding characterized it as a "shocking crime, barbarity, butchery, rot and madness." Others also compared the people of Herrin to the alleged behavior of German troops during World War I.
Two trials were held, the first on November 7, 1922, and the second in the winter of 1923. Only six men were indicted for the massacre, and the first two trials ended in acquittals for all the defendants. The prosecution gave up and dismissed the remaining indictments. Otis Clark was the first man to be tried on a total of 214 charges. Two years later, Clark was shot and killed by an unknown assailant.Another of the accused died in a mine accident
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Distributing among the nine young workers the 9 extra sets produced by the chief, the daily average for all ten men is 15+1 = 16 sets. Then the chief turns out 16 + 9 = 25 sets daily, and the entire brigade, (15 × 9) + 25 = 160 sets. Those who know algebra can solve the problem by composing an equation with one unknown.
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An item is made from lead blanks in a lathe shop. Each blank suffices for 1 item. Lead shavings accumulated from making 6 items can be melted and made into a blank. How many items can be made from 36 blanks?
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Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was working as a CIA employee and subcontractor.
Snowden's disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, prompting a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
In 2013, the United States Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property, revoking his passport. Two days later, he flew into a Moscow Airport, where Russian authorities noted that his U.S. passport had been canceled, and he could not leave the airport terminal for over one month.
Russia later granted Snowden the right of asylum with an initial visa for residence for one year, and he continues to reside there on extension today.
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I was thinking about him the other day. I'd imagine every adult in this country has an NSA file regardless of how safe they are in their day-to-day lives. Not to be doomer, but their reach is great I'm sure.
I block all known NSA web and IP addresses on my network. Probably very ineffective as those are super old and publicly known, and the NSA has a hell of a lot more out there, but still.
Worth a shot. I think any bit helps but at the end of the day I'm certain they've got shit no one knows about.
Had to get the fed police check me into a fed building today. Fed dude, who was presumably supervising, was breaking the news that some other fed cop had just been declared dead from drunk driving (lmao).
Eventually some other fed asked him what he was doing when he heard the news. He said he was shining his boots.
Lmao. What the fuck. This job is bringing so much damn comedy holy shit.
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I also made some of the silliest noises I've ever made as I was pushing through the last few reps lmao.
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queering protestantism by being a lazy piece of shit who doesn't have any work ethic at all
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my brother has been spending too much time with his posh girlfriend and her family. he now says 'water' than the proper 'wo'er'. disappointed
I read the story in this megathread and I can't help but feel like it's a really good example of why spontaneity is bad. It didn't help the mine workers at all to kill those scabs. It probably hurt their cause actually. Nobody with political sense would have had the scabs killed. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, but it would have probably been a much bigger victory if they beat the shit out of the scabs, held them hostage until the strike was over, and maybe just killed one or two of them to scare the rest. Instead the strikers who had clearly been wronged in a deal get slammed for massacring defenseless prisoners.
