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Socialism did take hold. It was brutally repressed. The battle of blair mountain is a clear example of what happens when workers demand fair treatment in Ameri
by crdoconnor 10y ago
Socialism did take hold. It was brutally repressed.
The battle of blair mountain is a clear example of what happens when workers demand fair treatment in America. They didn't just send the army in to break the strike, they sent the air force.
Though they lost, in the long term it raised awareness enough to actually lead to organized labor victories like the New Deal (which effectively led to the creation of the middle class 'good life' from the 50s).
The thing that really worries me is that another, similar battle would be necessary in order to arrest the current decline of the middle class.
- agumonkey 10y agoIs this mentioned ? the new deal thing is world famous, but not the blair mountain event. History ...
- gknoy 10y agoI had never heard of it until I saw it mentioned in an HN comment a year or so ago. For anyone who's interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
- agumonkey 10y agoI just read Economix, no mention of it, but I can't blame it really.
- schwap 10y ago> The battle of blair mountain is a clear example of what happens when workers demand fair treatment in America. They didn't just send the army in to break the strike, they sent the air force. The air force? in the 1920s?
- soylentcola 10y agoLooking into this, it seems that pilots were hired to drop bombs on the miners during the uprising.