The Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 was an American labor dispute which ran from July to September in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The strike was triggered on July 10th, a payday on which many workers were shorted by the Pressed Steel Car Company.
The strike began on July 13th, and grew to include more than 8,000 workers, 3,000 of whom were also from the Standard Steel Car Company. By the next day, 500 cops began working to protect strikebreakers and evict strikers from company houses. The New York Times called the immigrant workforce "savages" and "illiterate foreigners".
Management refused to speak with the workers' representatives and James Rider, manager of the Pressed Steel Car Company, responded to their strike by hiring Pearl Bergoff, a notorious owner of a strike-breaking paramilitary force.
The workers were joined by members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), including founders William Trautmann and "Big Bill" Haywood, as well as "Smiling Joe" Ettor.
The walkout drew national attention when, on this day in 1909, a bloody battle took place between strikers, private security agents, and the Pennsylvania State Police. The violence began after strikers boarded a trolley to search for scabs and they were confronted by an armed deputy, who opened fire. In the fighting that followed, between 12 and 26 people were killed.
The strike was settled on September 8th when Pressed Steel Car agreed to a wage increase, the posting of wage rates, and ended abuses in company housing practices. This labor dispute would be a precursor to the Great Steel Strike of 1919.
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When you wake up, me and my guys will be gone and your house will be normal again, with the expection of a homemade breakfast waiting in the fridge. You will never mention this ever again.
Understand?
Actually not the end of the world if you know you'll have a shot to nap during the day.
saw some thread about how ukraine is making huge grounds and liberated a place called Urozhaine. i never heard of it so i tried to find it on a map, but couldnt. so i typed it in google and apparently its a town that consists of two very narrow and short roads and is about 700 feet wide. so like 3-4 football fields
everyone is saying the war is over over 3-4 football fields of land
propaganda is wild
Liberating Urozhaine is actually very important despite its small size, it is critical to the local economy due to the racism factory located there
What if libs were clamoring over a new town that was liberated/lost and after all the research, all you can tell is that it’s a lame set up for a deez nuts joke
the news mega is, on the other hand, the opposite of therapy
like gazing into an abyssal void where things keep getting worse
occasionally there's a good thing I guess
Ok but I was straight up looking forward to the Cuck Chad rankings today. We do have those!
Every now and then I feel like I'm out of touch with the world and then I see things long this and get a lot better about myself
Hasn't it been almost 10 years since he's been out of the public eye?
Like fine he's the libbest lib of all or whatever, but at least he's fucked off to enjoy he TV money since then for the most part. Even if I'm the libbest lib why would I bring him back out of retirement? Is there really nobody else?
Lord help me I'm reading the sex scene discourse, and I just saw someone claim that if Oppenheimer had a scene where he took a shit, unlike the sex scene, no one would mind and people would like it because it is realistic and shows the character is a real person. And 1. That's nonsense, that scene would be all people talked about, 2. I can't stop imagining him saying the meme line just after winning a struggle against a really big turd.
bruh why are they doing another sex scene discourse that shit sucked butts the first time
It's wikipedia addicts who hate when a movie contains a scene that doesn't move to the next bullet point of a plot summary.
Oppenheimer dropping bombs, that's already the main plot of the movie
When the revolution comes, any web developer who's ever implemented a "sign up for our newsletter!" nag screen should be flogged. I don't care if they were "just following orders" of their asshole project manager.
If you've ever put a tracking pixelon a website you're going to have to write one, or possibly more, 1500 word essays explaining why you were wrong and apologizing for your crimes.
Spreading fake news that my city has high crime rate in order to lower rent
Doing crimes so that my city has high crime rate in order to lower rent
Going out at night and firing my gun into the sky once every week to keep rent down in my neighborhood
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Dating struggles
Asked out a guy for the first time in my life today. Turns out he already has a boyfriend
so there's another L for me. On the other hand this guy is so
that I don't think he realized that I was asking him out. I didn't directly ask him out but I did say I was bi and then directly after asked if he had time to do stuff this weekend, so first he fiddled through his phone and then mentioned that he had a date with his bf. This guy is peak
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Sexuality struggles
Is it normal to be more attracted to one gender than another as a bisexual and then have it switch? Is it normal to be romantically attracted to girls but only sexually attracted to guys? Do note: I'm not looking to expand beyond being bisexual. That's the only label I want to use, even if I'm technically pansexual or something.
Is it normal to be more attracted to one gender than another as a bisexual and then have it switch?
Oh yeah. It's called the bi-cycle. Best advice I can give is just to not worry about labels, and just enjoy the attraction-of-the-moment.
you have achieved peak ancient greek sexuality, where you have a wife at home who you begrudgingly have sex with for procreation, and then you just fuck literally every guy you come across
Incredibly funny when my linguistics teacher wrote that the transformation of English into a global language was a "Historical accident". Yeah, a real big "accident" alright
Americans complaining about the aging Chinese population while their own president is a lich.
I'm genuinely curious what china will do about it tho. It's such a massive problem in the west, that I'm curious how an economy that isn't a pyramid scheme handles it.
They had a one child policy for a while. This isn't news to them. They have to have planned ahead for this. So far of every situation we have seen They planned for it well and handled it. There is no compelling reason to think this would be any different
I hate that. I got git with a down-swing recently too. Feeling pretty bad. Know it'll pass. I hope you come out of it soon. Doing something you're good at helps.
Doing something you're good at helps.
This is good advice @jimmyjohnsilverhand@hexbear.net You just aren't posting hard enough.
That happens from time to time. Not saying this will work for you, but try putting on some Joy Division and crying for a while, that might help. This sounds weird, but try to enjoy the sadness. This kind of works for me, but I have meds that mostly work, so results may vary wildly.