Today in Labor History August 27, 1934: 7,000 Filipino lettuce cutters and mainly white packing shed workers went on strike against the powerful Salinas Valley growers and shippers, demanding union recognition & improved wages and working conditions. Many of the white workers were Dust Bowl refugees. Most of the Filipino workers had immigrated as U.S. nationals, after the U.S. took over the Philippines, in the wake of the Spanish-American War. There was rampant persecution of Filipino workers in California. Laws prohibited Filipino women from immigrating to the U.S. and prevented Filipino men from consorting with Anglo women. The American Federation of Labor initially refused to recognize or support the Filipino Labor Union (FLU). Scabs and vigilantes viciously beat Filipino strikers and chased 800 out of the Salinas Valley at gunpoint. They also burned down a labor camp. Police arrested picketers and union leaders for violation of the Criminal Syndicalism laws (laws that prohibited advocating any change to the economic and political status quo). The FLU ultimately won a raise and union recognition. However, discrimination and racist violence against Filipinos continued.

Steinbeck wrote about the plight of Filipino migrant farmworkers in the Salinas Valley in a 1936 series of articles for the San Francisco News called “The Harvest of Gypsies,” which formed part of the basis for his novel, Grapes of Wrath. He said they were among the most discriminated, and best organized, ethnic group in the U.S. Their organizing, he went on to say, brought on terrorism against them by vigilantes and the government.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #filipino #Salinas #farmworkers #racism #immigration #colonialism #police #PoliceBrutality #vigilantes #DustBowl #Steinbeck #journalism #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

@takelgryph

Anyone who made the mistake of welcoming - however guardedly and in however qualified terms - the arrival of the #bbc on the #fediverse yesterday ran the risk of being #trolled by #vigilantes who accused them among other things of #transphobia on no other evidence. Hence my exasperated comment!

#ukpol Breaking News!

It has just been announced on the #bbc - no doubt a mention that provoke a response from #vigilantes ! - that there will be a #byelection in #rutherglenandhamiltonwest as a result of a valid #recall #petition . The date will be set next month when #parliament reassembles. This means not until October at the earliest. This means also that new #voterIDrequirements for parliamentary elections will be in force - as it seems they were not in July!

Today in Labor History August 1, 1921: Sheriff Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were murdered by Baldwin-Felts private cops. They did it in retaliation for Hatfield’s role in the Matewan labor battle in 1920, when two Felts family thugs were killed by Hatfield and his deputies, who had sided with the coal miners. The private cops executed Hatfield and Chambers on the Welch County courthouse steps in front of their wives. This led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 20,000 coal miners marched to the anti-union stronghold Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. The Battle of Blair Mountain started in September 1921. The armed miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. It was the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, and the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The president of the U.S. eventually sent in 27,000 national guards. Over 1 million rounds were fired. Up to 100 miners were killed, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and 3 national guards. They even dropped bombs on the miners from planes, the second time in history that the U.S. bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom again black residents of Tulsa, earlier that same year).

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mining #WestVirginia #strike #union #police #vigilantes #PoliceBrutality #uprising #CivilWar #bomb

@mnutty @BBCRD @clickhere

Watch out! You will be abused and #trolled on an industrial scale by #vigilantes for tooting this!

@psychictides @K4rizma @o76923 @dangillmor

A classic example of bigotry by #trolls and #vigilantes. Ascribing views to me I do not hold, never have held and have certainly never been recorded as holding! An object lesson in how to make enemies or at least try to silence by intimidation!

@andrewt

You have been extraordinarily brave to toot this. Even a qualified welcome to the #bbc seems to bring out #trolls and #vigilantes. But keep it up and perhaps we can ride out the storm.

Today in Labor History July 16, 1934: The San Francisco General Strike began. The longshoremen’s strike actually started on May 9 and lasted 83 days, leading ultimately to the unionization of all West Coast ports. The strike grew violent quickly, with company goons and police brutalizing longshoremen and sailors. They hired private security to protect the scabs they brought in to load and unload ships, housing them in moored ships and wall compounds that the strikers attacked. In San Pedro, two workers were killed by private security on May 15. Battles also broke out in Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. On Bloody Thursday, July 5, in San Francisco, police attacked strikers with tear gas and with clubs while on horseback and later fired into the crowd, killing two and injuring others. A General Strike was called on July 14 and began on July 16, lasting 4 days. Many non-unionized workers joined the strike. Movie theaters and night clubs shut down. Many small businesses shut down & posted signs in solidarity with the strikers.

On July 17, the cops arrested 300 people they accused of being communists, radicals or subversives. The National Guard also blocked both ends of Jackson Street that day with machine gun-mounted trucks to aid vigilante attacks on the Marine Workers Industrial Union headquarters and the ILA soup kitchen. They raided many other union halls and communist organizations. Vigilantes kidnapped and beat a lawyer for the ACLU, as well as 13 radicals from San Jose, CA.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #SanFrancisco #longshoremen #waterfront #union #communism #vigilantes #BloodyThursday #PoliceBrutality #police #acab

Today in Labor History July 12, 1917: Today was the final day of the vigilante deportation of striking mine workers at Bisbee, Arizona. On July 11, authorities sealed off the county and seized the local Western Union telegraph office to cut off outside communication, while several thousand, armed vigilantes rounded up 1,186 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The workers were herded into manure-laden boxcars and dumped in the New Mexico desert. During the Bisbee mine strike, company-hired vigilantes attempted to kidnap and deport Jim Brew, a miner and IWW member. However, Brew fought back and was shot and killed. Brew was a veteran of the West Virginia Cripple Creek strike of 1903-04.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #bisbee #deportation #vigilantes #union #strike #mining #arizona #murder

#homophobia is #amoral.
#transphobia is #immoral.

#lgbtqia #transgender #vigilantes

https://youtu.be/1lHEgN3QsuI

Today in Labor History June 26, 1917: IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) miners went on strike in Bisbee, Arizona. On July 11, authorities sealed off the county and seized the local Western Union telegraph office to cut off outside communication, while several thousand armed vigilantes rounded up 1,300 strikers, their supporters, and innocent bystanders. They were herded into manure-laden boxcars and dumped in the New Mexico desert, 200 miles away. During the Bisbee mine strike, company-hired vigilantes attempted to kidnap and deport Jim Brew, a miner and IWW member. However, Brew fought back and was shot and killed. Brew was a veteran of the West Virginia Cripple Creek strike of 1903-04.

“Bisbee ‘17,” (1999) by Robert Houston, is a historical novel based on the Bisbee deportations. There was also a really interesting film of the same name that came out in 2018. In the film, the town’s inhabitants reenact the events 100 years later. It also includes interviews with current residents.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #bisbee #arizona #deportation #miners #vigilantes #union #strike #book #writing #author #film @bookstadon

Global News BC: Keremeos, B.C. residents raise concerns over abandoned bus https://globalnews.ca/news/9782328/keremeos-b-c-residents-concerns-abandoned-bus/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #regionaldistrictofokanagansimilkameen #police-involvedshooting #Unincorporatedcamp #MinistryofForests #Keremeosshooting #KeremeosRCMP #Keremeosbus #Vigilantes #squatters #Keremeos #Shooting #Canada

Alex Bailey: Man threw Dublin pensioner in wheelie bin because he thought she was trans paedophile | The Independent
#Vigilantes
#Dublin
#Trans
#Cis
#Woman
#Transphobia
#Violence
#Dementia
#LossOfIndependence
#NursingHome
#Delusional
#Psychosis

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/alex-bailey-dublin-pensioner-trans-b2346282.html

Watch the latest segment on our youtube channel

https://youtu.be/tFycdYXzN_Y

#TimPool #JordanNeely #danielpenny #analysis #commentary #justice # #vigilantes

Vigilante violence has always been the US right's weapon of choice.

' Whenever confronted with a threat to white supremacy — the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the George Floyd protests — conservatives turn to the law and order of white impunity and white violence. White supremacy in the US has always been challenged, which means it’s always on the defensive, always insisting that extrajudicial violence is necessary and glorious. '

#vigilantes #racism

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/daniel-penny-white-vigilante-violence-neely

Please, Everyone, Calm Your Faces About Shoplifting https://www.wonkette.com/please-everyone-calm-your-faces-about-shoplifting

#Shoplifting #Crime #Corporate_greed #Shrinkage #Loss_prevention #Vigilantes

Today in Labor History April 20, 1914: National Guards opened fire on a mining camp during a strike in Ludlow, Colorado, killing five miners, two women, and twelve children. By the end of the strike, they had killed more than 75 people. The strike involved 10,000 members of the united Mine Workers of America (UMW), 1,200 of whom had been living in the Ludlow tent colony. Many of the “Guards” were actually goons and vigilantes hired by the Ludlow Mine Field owner, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. During the assault, they opened fire on strikers and their families with machine guns and set fire to the camp.

Mining was (and still is) a dangerous job. At the time, Colorado miners were dying on the job at a rate of more than 7 deaths per 1,000 employees. The working conditions were not only unsafe, but terribly unfair, too. Workers were paid by the ton for coal that they extracted, but weren’t paid for so-called “dead work” like shoring up unstable roofs and tunnels. This system encouraged miners to risk their lives by ignoring safety precautions and preparations so that they would have more time to extract and deliver coal. Miners also lived in “company towns” where the boss not only owned their housing and the stores that supplied their food and clothing, but charged inflated prices for these services. Furthermore, the workers were paid in “scrip,” a currency that was valid only in the company towns. So even if workers had a way to get to another store, they had no money to purchase anything. Therefore, much of what the miners earned went back into the pockets of their bosses.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #ludlow #massacre #mining #vigilantes #rockefeller

#vigilantes

"In the wake of the hate-slaying of Ahmaud Arbury, and under pressure from an outraged public, the Georgia legislature agreed to change its law to allow citizen’s arrests only in the case of shopkeepers detaining suspected shoplifters.

Gov. Brian Kemp said the old law could be “used to justify rogue vigilantism.” And then he signed the bill into law.

If a vigilante law can be stripped of its fangs, in a state where both the legislature and the governor’s mansion are controlled by the Republicans, then ordinary citizens have an opening to insist on and effect changes anywhere."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/gop-vigilante-laws-subvert-courts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

#Vigilantes è orribile.
Ancora peggio è come vengono trattati migliaia di lavoratori.
Che volevo fà?
#Sfruttamento #LavoroPovero #Italia #GovernoMeloni
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/fvg/video/2023/03/vigilantes-in-sciopero-il-contratto-non-si-rinnova-da-otto-anni-9c54d283-1120-4015-a4c1-cd27a6915cac.html

I work with a samaritan group doing desert aid work west of where this happened. We occasionally find our water drops trashed or slashed as well.

https://vimeo.com/807291613/9f6ef10558

https://arizonadailystar-az.newsmemory.com/?publink=433452815_134aacf

#border #vigilantes #HumanitarianAid