On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Man, it is so hard to get people to review your game on Steam.
I went to a convention, walked through a demo of my game with people in-person, watched like two dozen of them actually go to the steam store and buy my game, and then looked them dead in the eyes as they told me, with a smile, that they'll gladly review my game.
Not a single one has.
shout out to everyone here who immediately reviewed the game when Goadstool made that post 2 weeks ago
That actually helped a lot, Steam requires your game to have 50+ reviews before you're allowed to have a "VERY positive" rating instead of just "Positive" and Kor was sitting at 47 for a while. But now it's at 53, and passing that milestone was an awesome feeling! \o/
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