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Where have your guts gone?

On May 1, 1886, 340,000 workers were involved in strikes and protests across the country for the eight-hour day. Chicago was the hub—65,000 workers struck there. The employers counter-attacked. On May 3, 200 police attacked a group of strikers at Chicago’s McCormick Reaper works, killing four. In protest, 3,000 workers gathered in Haymarket Square the following day. As the protest was breaking up, someone, a police agent or an angry individual, tossed a bomb into the police ranks, killing one (several more were later killed by their own cross-fire).

Police then went on another rampage, killing four workers and injuring hundreds. Eight working-class radicals were arrested and tried. All but one (Oscar Neebe) were sentenced to death. One, Louis Lingg, committed suicide in his cell, one served some prison time, and three (Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, and Oscar Neebe) were later pardoned. Four—August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and George Engel—were executed in 1887, even though there was no evidence connecting them to it, and only Spies and Fielden attended the event.

But that didn’t matter to the employers, politicians, and their press. As leaders in the labor movement, anarchists and socialists all, an example had to be made of them. “Anarchy is on trial,” declared prosecutor Julius Grinnell. “These men have been selected, picked out...and indicted because they are the leaders. They are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Convict these men, make examples of them, hang them, and you save our institutions, our society.”

August Spies’ last words before his hanging still ring powerfully today: “If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement...then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there and there, behind you and in front of you and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.”


http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/haymarket.shtml


All gone ....................... They fought and died for nothing,
 
Bread and Circuses

Starting in the 50s, when the foundation of gutless America was laid, playing team sports pacified the unifying instinct of post-union generations. Also, the solidarity in games wasn't against a ruling class, but against another team.

The average number of years in school was extended. The schools imposed a totally individualist atmosphere, making it easy for the ruling class to pick people off one by one. Divide and Conquer has been the only goal of education.

Entertainment created vicarious courage and defiance, leaving the passive viewer satisfied with imaginary acting out. Those who cheered Jack Nicholson not putting up with poor service by a waitress would go out to dinner afterwards and not do act the same towards real waitresses. Death Wish created no vigilantes; those who hated muggers felt that applauding the movie fulfilled their duty to enforce law and order.
 

Wahbooz

Governor
They're not stomping out the labor force, they're moving it overseas. If people don't wake up they better get a tin cup and some pencils to sell on the street corner.
 
They're not stomping out the labor force, they're moving it overseas. If people don't wake up they better get a tin cup and some pencils to sell on the street corner.
Well-Hidden Cause of Our Economic Deterioration

College graduates are inferior people placed in superior positions. That's the way it will stay unless it is replaced by highly paid professional training, the only incentive that will attract talent. The contemporary Diploma Dumbos' incompetence necessitates that the only way they can make money is through dirt-cheap labor. Notice that the Establishment's mandate is "To Get a Good Job, Get a Good Education." There's nothing in that pushy slogan about "To Do a Good Job."
 

Wahbooz

Governor
Well-Hidden Cause of Our Economic Deterioration

College graduates are inferior people placed in superior positions. That's the way it will stay unless it is replaced by highly paid professional training, the only incentive that will attract talent. The contemporary Diploma Dumbos' incompetence necessitates that the only way they can make money is through dirt-cheap labor. Notice that the Establishment's mandate is "To Get a Good Job, Get a Good Education." There's nothing in that pushy slogan about "To Do a Good Job."
An education can only do so much, a person has to have motivation, as well as the discipline to do a good job. I've seen book smart people who could not perform in the workplace. They can take a test, but they can not apply the mandates of the discipline they are in. Skilled trades is one field that needs an apprenticeship program, so someone can either perform, or find another field to work in.

One of my components in my education was an internship with a CPA and to volunteer to do income taxes for low income people, along with doing the accounting for a number of firms. One of the people who was supposed to be in charge was someone who worked for H&R Block. She thought she knew everything, which is why one poor old lady was getting charged a farm tax when she was on;y renting the farm to someone else. I told her she was wrong, and she went ballistic, until the Accountant in charge interceded. She never came back.

But that is not to say all college graduates are inferior, only those who are as I said book smart, but totally incapable of applying what they've learned. But the first precept to a good job is a good education, and then learning how to work in that field. But also consider this, there are those who seem to think they are smarter than their instructors. Nobody can teach them anything.

Doing a good job is up to the person, no matter who it is.
 

EatTheRich

President
http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/haymarket.shtml


All gone ....................... They fought and died for nothing,
There have been some setbacks for the labor movement. First and foremost was Hitler's rise to power. But the fight continues. Did you know that workers are on strike somewhere in China almost continuously throughout the year, and that nearly all of these strikes are wildcat strikes not authorized by the state-run unions? That a few of them involve armed battles with the police? And that they have won concessions with these strikes ... higher wages, benefits, ending the threat of privatization, etc.?
 
There have been some setbacks for the labor movement. First and foremost was Hitler's rise to power. But the fight continues. Did you know that workers are on strike somewhere in China almost continuously throughout the year, and that nearly all of these strikes are wildcat strikes not authorized by the state-run unions? That a few of them involve armed battles with the police? And that they have won concessions with these strikes ... higher wages, benefits, ending the threat of privatization, etc.?
Yes --- as for Hitler you know I disagree but can't get into it now ---- xxx
 
They're not stomping out the labor force, they're moving it overseas. If people don't wake up they better get a tin cup and some pencils to sell on the street corner.
Reptile Republicans


Herbert Hoover, the Lizard of Laissez-Faire, claimed that those reduced to selling apples were making as much money doing that as they did on the jobs they had before his plutocratic-parasite politics put 30% of the people out of work.
 
An education can only do so much, a person has to have motivation, as well as the discipline to do a good job. I've seen book smart people who could not perform in the workplace. They can take a test, but they can not apply the mandates of the discipline they are in. Skilled trades is one field that needs an apprenticeship program, so someone can either perform, or find another field to work in.

One of my components in my education was an internship with a CPA and to volunteer to do income taxes for low income people, along with doing the accounting for a number of firms. One of the people who was supposed to be in charge was someone who worked for H&R Block. She thought she knew everything, which is why one poor old lady was getting charged a farm tax when she was on;y renting the farm to someone else. I told her she was wrong, and she went ballistic, until the Accountant in charge interceded. She never came back.

But that is not to say all college graduates are inferior, only those who are as I said book smart, but totally incapable of applying what they've learned. But the first precept to a good job is a good education, and then learning how to work in that field. But also consider this, there are those who seem to think they are smarter than their instructors. Nobody can teach them anything.

Doing a good job is up to the person, no matter who it is.
If You Don't Pay Students, You Get What You Pay For

College is work without pay. This "book smart" is one of the ways slaves dodge the obvious criticism. The fascist employers have no right to impose that slavery on us. We created their wealth, so we should make the demands. They know perfectly well how they cripple a student for life through that experience; that's why they make sure their own children live off a healthy allowance in college.
 

Wahbooz

Governor
If You Don't Pay Students, You Get What You Pay For

College is work without pay. This "book smart" is one of the ways slaves dodge the obvious criticism. The fascist employers have no right to impose that slavery on us. We created their wealth, so we should make the demands. They know perfectly well how they cripple a student for life through that experience; that's why they make sure their own children live off a healthy allowance in college.
I believe in a balanced relationship between employer and employee. The employer should never have so much power as to hold an employee over a barrel.
 
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