Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Three thousand workers, mostly African-American, began construction on the Hawks Nest Tunnel in West Virginia. The employer cut costs by failing to provide safety equipment. Additionally, bosses forced the men to work 10-15-hour days, often at gunpoint, without breaks and without masks to protect themselves from the silicon dust. Consequently, hundreds of workers died of silicosis. Possibly over 1,000 people, one-third of the entire workforce, died from silicosis, in one of America’s worst cases of mass workplace mortality.

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Leave politics out of football!

Jeff Kennett is the fucken president! That's exactly what the change side is trying to do!

Funny that conservatives love going into sport admin when they retire from politics but when progressive people do the same thing all you hear is 'leave politics out of sport'!

Haven't we learnt by bow that you can't separate the two!

#hawksnest #hawthornvotes

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/hawk-greats-back-nankivell-presidency-bid-tigers-co-captain-on-track-20221119-p5bzl8.html

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