On this day in 1877, the demand of train workers in East St. Louis, Illinois for higher wages was rejected, marking the beginning of a general strike in which workers seized and destroyed property, dismantling over forty factories.
The 1877 St. Louis General Strike was one of the first general strikes in the United States, growing out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, a national period of strikes and rioting due to economic depression. The St. Louis strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
On this day in 1877, in East St. Louis, Illinois, train workers held a secret meeting, resolving to call for an increase in wages and to strike if their demands were not met. The demand was made and rejected that same night, and so, effective at midnight, the strike began.
Within hours, strikers virtually controlled the city. Although the strike was mostly bloodless, the protesters seized the city's Union Depot, stopped freight and some passenger trains from passing through the city.
Workers attacked productive capital, including flour mills and sugar refineries, dismantling over forty factories in total. The strike ended when the National Guard and U.S. Marshals began to break up demonstrations by force five days later.
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Since we are gonna have a discourse on nuclear scientists, we can all agree the ones that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Manhattan project saved the world from an American dominated nuclear age
My grandfather was one of those scientists, worked on the manhattan project and hated Oppenheimer and called him “an opportunistic slug”. He was very much a communist but I didn’t really understand what it was. He died in South America about 18 years ago.
Einstein seemed to be the only one of those big names that seemed to have any integrity or knew what the bomb would cause (likely due to the fact he was sympathetic to socialism).
Rosenberegs were cool
Yeah that guy is definitely one of the great heroes of world history.