On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.
After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.
The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.
After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.
"When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois...They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America."
Mother Jones
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Is hawk tuah the dumbest and shittiest meme of recent months?
Yes
It is really funny how unfunny and popular it is though imo lol
Good to riff off of as well although I don't have any good ones to share rn
I have no idea what the fuck is that. Is something like this woman said that hawk tua is the sound you make when you do oral sex or something like that, and that is the meme?
And now she has a podcast. I don’t know how these people manage to capitalize on their meme for so long.
As far as I know, the only reason she gained so much traction as a meme is because chuds just imagined LGBTQ people being mad at a hetero sex reference during Pride Month, and the culture war dollars came in.
Gay dudes are famous for never giving blowjobs
She rode her 15 minutes and is trying to get some bank from it and I would do the same. Shit sucks out here and if I could squeeze as much as I could out of some dumb thing I said, I would be
My aggressively optimistic take is
volcel
she sucked dick for fame but only consensually and with partners of her choosing so
That said I have not listened to her podcast nor do I intend to lol