These were often remote camps, so your only opportunity to quit would be after getting pay and going into town. Probably a lot of them did quit, but conditions were pretty bad elsewhere for working-class men.
As for burning it down, well, you see what Centralia did to them.
In grade school in the 60s what I learned about the Wobblies was that they weren't serious (hence the silly name) and anyway they were communists and therefore bad. We learned a surprising amount about the labor movement, but it was never about the various massacres, and mostly "everything's fine now except the Teamsters are thugs and anyway 'murica!" sigh.
Silly, she's rich! Rich people don't go to jail. Unless they screw other rich people out of their money. THEN they might.
Oddly, kkkops depend on their kkkop union to keep them out of jail!
“Centralia elite.” Not a common phrase in the English language.
Luckily for them, police unions are about the only ones the RW typically supports.
The only general a working person needs.
But it IS the beginning of the realization that the wages system is outmoded.
The judge seems to agree with him.
Scab unions. Ever see one march in solidarity with a strike? Me too, neither.
Qualified impunity.
One thing that I think limits it is that our population is a lot older. America 100 years ago was a much younger country on average.
These were often remote camps, so your only opportunity to quit would be after getting pay and going into town. Probably a lot of them did quit, but conditions were pretty bad elsewhere for working-class men.
As for burning it down, well, you see what Centralia did to them.
The attitude?
As Peltier did.
Thank you for this, Erik. We need this kind of reminder VERY MUCH right now.
In grade school in the 60s what I learned about the Wobblies was that they weren't serious (hence the silly name) and anyway they were communists and therefore bad. We learned a surprising amount about the labor movement, but it was never about the various massacres, and mostly "everything's fine now except the Teamsters are thugs and anyway 'murica!" sigh.
This is why knowing history is important.