October 8, is the anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.

The Bayonne Refinery Strikes of 1915-1916 were labor actions of refinery workers in Bayonne, New Jersey, mostly Polish-Americans, who struck against Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil and Tidewater Petroleum plants.

On October 8th, 1916, thousands of Standard Oil workers went on strike, demanding higher wages. The strikers faced fierce opposition from law enforcement, and the labor action became violent. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 were wounded.

According to communist journalist John Reed (an eyewitness to the strike action), this was the first time in an industrial dispute where police announced that their explicit objective was to break the strike.

Multiple journalists in Bayonne criticized mainstream press as portraying the strikers and protesters as more violent than they actually were; according to Reed and others, the violence was initiated by police themselves.

Bloodshed in Bayonne libcom :red-fist:

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