Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reed
“Every single chickenshit privilege that we call a right in this nation was taken by force in uprisings frequently labeled as riots. There would have been no eight-hour workday or five-day workweek if it wasn’t for the West Virginia Coal Wars that forced Washington to send in the National Guard to put down the largest uprising since the Civil War at Blair Mountain in 1921. And we might have held onto a few of those hours too if we had kept fighting instead of joining the federal government with FDR’s duplicitous New Deal.” (06/23/24)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2024/06/from-stonewall-to-blair-mountain-rant.html