Today in Labor History September 9, 1919: Boston police walked off the job during the strike wave that was spreading across the country. The police had affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, prompting the police commissioner to suspend 19 of them for their organizing efforts, and prompting other cops to go on strike. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge announced that none of the strikers would be rehired and he called in the state police to crush the strike. However, over half of them showed solidarity and refused to work. Coolidge then mustered the state militia and created an entirely new police force made up of unemployed World War I veterans, and Harvard students. The poorly trained “cops” killed 9 people during the strike. But all the blame was placed on the strikers. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called their strike a crime against civilization. AFL President Samuel Gompers urged the cops, whom he represented, to return to work. The press attacked the striking cops as Bolsheviks. The NY Times wrote: “A policeman has no more right to belong to a union than a soldier or a sailor. He must be ready to obey orders, the orders of his superiors, not those of any outside body. One of his duties is the maintenance of order in the case of strike violence. In such a case, if he is faithful to his union, he may have to be unfaithful to the public, which pays him to protect it.” And ever since, the cops and their “unions” (professional association might be a more appropriate term) have overwhelmingly followed the NYT advice, rarely striking themselves (~25 in the U.S. over the past 100 years) and eagerly attacking other working class people who are on strike.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #police #cops #bolshevik #ww1 #NYTimes

"Brot aus der Luft holen" - im industriellen Maßstab: Damit ging es exakt vonr 110 Jahren los. #OTD am 9.9.1913 im Rhein im BASF Stickstoffwerk in Oppau los. Während #WW1 kam dann auch "Tod aus der Luft" aus Oppau. Denn aus Ammoniak lässt sich sowohl Dünger als auch Sprengstoff machen. Wie heftig das Haber-Bosch-Verfahren noch heute ins Leben auf der Erde einwirkt und wie es dem Erfinder Fritz Haber und dem Werk Oppau erging: Nachlesen in meinem Buch "Globale Überdosis" #Geschichte #Sachbuch

56 of 151 ships - HMS Hercules crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/hercules

54 of 151 ships - HMS Hampshire crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/hampshire

"Mid-Afternoon Map: Occupied America"

#EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #NAFO #History #WW1 #WW2

https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/mid-afternoon-map-occupied-america-2/

Diaporamas des présentations proposées par #geneatech_ lors de la Journée du Souvenir Français à Châlons-en-Champagne le 6 septembre 2023.

#1GM #WW1 #1J1P #MPLF #Poilus #PGM

https://geneatech.fr/blog/la-journee-du-souvenir-francais-a-chalons-en-champagne/

Annoncée depuis quelques mois, la carte Monte Piana est maintenant jouable, gratuitement, pour tous les joueurs de ce FPS se déroulant sur le théâtre italien du premier conflit mondial.

L'article complet par ici : https://www.histogames.com/HTML/news/2023/septembre/004-isonzo-monte-piana-maintenant-disponible.php

#jeuxvideo #histoire #WW1

There's a Celtic cross in Ieper (Yprès) erected by the people of Munster and Cork to the memory of the men of the Royal Munster Fusiliers who fought and died in Ypres in #WW1

History of the regiment on website of @CorkPMuseum
https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/exhibitions/ucc-collaborations/royal-munster-fusiliers.html

Came across this today:

Possible last letter home of Dublin-born David Berney (Connaught Rangers), written in Aldershot 4 Aug 1914. "Don't say anything at home until I am gone away"...

He was killed in action 1 Nov 1914.

Source: http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/reels/sw/BerneyD_E59936.pdf @NARIreland
#WW1

51 of 151 ships - HMS Garland crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/garland

50 of 151 ships - HMS Galatea crew list - recent updates
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49 of 151 ships - HMS Fortune crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/fortune

#OTD in 1918, Lt. Aaron Fisher was serving as an officer in the AEF during #WW1. He received both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre for 'exceptional bravery.'

Fellow #Hoosier, from Lyles Station IN. #histodon

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/indiana-in-wwi-stories/2391-aaron-r-fisher.html

#familyhistory #greatwar #ancestorian #genealogy #ww1 #royalnavy
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45 of 151 ships - HMS Erin crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/erin

Updated virtually on a daily basis, the links on the Wiki are to the 151 photograph galleries of crews on the ships in the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland (31 May to 1 June 1916).

Photographs are from newspapers of the time, from those submitted by relatives and from other sources.

#familyhistory #greatwar #ancestorian #genealogy #ww1 #royalnavy #FamilyTree #FamilyTrees

https://battleofjutlandcrewlists.miraheze.org/wiki/Crew_List_(Photographs)

Harry – Violet Jacob’s only child – died aged just twenty from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, on 16 July 1916.

“To A.H.J.”, from More Songs of Angus and Others (1918)

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #WW1 #WarPoetry
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Violet Jacob’s family had lived at Dun since the 15th century. The House of Dun is now maintained by the National Trust for Scotland.

This article features letters written by Violet Jacob & her son, Harry, who joined the British Army in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #WW1
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https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-jacob-letters-from-the-house-of-dun

40 of 151 ships - HMS Defence crew list - recent updates
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https://www.jutlandcrewlists.org/defence

1. Continuing the series of the men who served in the K.O.Y.L.I
Lance Corporal Alfred Parr King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 5th Battalion, 2670.
Alfred was the son of Alfred Parr and Mary Taylor and was born in 1885, Newark, Nottinghamshire. In 1911 Albert’s occupation was a Working Malster aged 26. #WW1 #history