One hundred forty years ago this month, a labor stoppage that started on July 14, 1877 in Martinsburg, W. Va. – where workers on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad struck to protest their third wage cut in a year – quickly spread along the nation’s rail network. From Maryland to Missouri, railroad workers protested what they felt was a stranglehold by corporate interests. In a nation struggling to recover from a financial panic, with high unemployment and growing immigrant populations, tension was high.
In multiple locations, sympathetic workers from other industries such as coal miners and mill workers joined in. For 45 days, national unrest reigned. Some called it the “Great Upheaval.” Many Americans feared it was the start of another Civil War.
Pittsburgh witnessed some of the most extreme violence. Here, fury at the Pennsylvania Railroad (which announced a 10% wage cut in June) and local sympathy for the strikers prompted state officials to send in a Philadelphia-based militia force. On July 21, as these troops faced a crowd that had gathered around the 28th street crossing near Liberty Ave., pistol shots rang out. To this day, no one is sure who fired first. In response, the militia shot into the crowd, killing more than 20 people.
Stunned strikers and onlookers dispersed, but the act ultimately ignited a fiery riot. By that evening and through July 22, thousands of people flooded city streets, clashing with the militia and each other. Fire destroyed more than 30 buildings, including the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Union Depot, and thousands of pieces of rolling stock, including locomotive engines and rail cars. Cannons were placed on bridges into Allegheny City to prevent the angry mob from crossing. By the time the violence began to subside, a large section of Pittsburgh lay in ruins.
S.V. Albee recorded this aftermath, composing images that emphasized the scale of the destruction. He took more than forty photographs for stereograph cards, a popular 19th century parlor amusement that allowed people to see three-dimensional views of famous scenes. That people might be interested in such images can be seen in the cards themselves, which capture onlookers strolling amid the ruins.
-- Picturing Protest: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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1 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 20
1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 5 = 20
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1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 7 = 20
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How many different triangles are there in this figure.
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A topic with striking and trains?
Stop, you'll spoil us! :train-shining: :hyperflush:
Bezos defenders are turning me into a tankie. There simply has never been a regime authoritarian enough to have a population more propagandized than an employee at a startup or anyone who refers to themselves as a futurist. I'd 100% prefer the 1984 society than whatever air-rationed nightmare the silicon Valley dorks are leading us to.
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White Americans love for cops makes more sense when you realize how many reactionary whites basically want to live in their own separate, unofficial, white ethnostate within the broader US state. And the cops are simply the army of this unofficial ethnostate.
Also explains why they're ok with cops having heavy equipment and tactical gear that came straight from Fallujah.
How violent and racist the would was and continues to be is making me really sad :bottom-speak:
One of my favorite childhood parks was named after a flower. It was nice. Then a few years ago a pig got himself shot nearby so they renamed the whole damn park after him.
I mean, I have a strong dislike for any public asset named after an individual person (Leningrad is ok because it was replacing the name of an aristocrat), but renaming a park after a cop is just sicko bootlicker shit.
An entire week's worth of material where the question is "Humans are empathetic creatures, why is there so much inequality?"
The fact it isn't just a one word answer (capitalism) is a disgrace. I was promised cultural marxism in universities.
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