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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/LaborUnions.html

Economist Ray Marshall, although a prounion secretary of labor under President Jimmy Carter, made his academic reputation by documenting how unions excluded blacks from membership in the 1930s and 1940s. Marshall also wrote of incidents in which union members assaulted black workers hired to replace them during strikes. During the 1911 strike against the Illinois Central, noted Marshall, whites killed two black strikebreakers and wounded three others at McComb, Mississippi. He also noted that white strikers killed ten black firemen in 1911 because the New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad had granted them equal seniority. Not surprisingly, therefore, black leader Booker T. Washington opposed unions all his life, and W. E. B. DuBois called unions the greatest enemy of the black working class. Another interesting fact: the “union label” was started in the 1880s to proclaim that a product was made by white rather than yellow (Chinese) hands. More generally, union wage rates, union-backed requirements for a license to practice various occupations, and union-backed labor regulations such as the minimum wage law and the Davis-Bacon Act continue to reduce opportunities for black youths, females, and other minorities.
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Mike Nelson here.
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one of the secret demands during the flint sit-down strike was to promise not to hire black labour in production positions.
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White Race - #1 since 1492
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hey guys im white and just joined a hispanic gang. am i being socially progressive??? thanks
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It's a fact that no euro-amerikan scabs have ever been harmed and that being a racist oppressor explains everything that has happened in the western hemisphere since 1492. I read it in a 35 year old mimeographed zine written by someone who doesn't use capital letters, so you know it's legit.
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swirlsofhistory posted:

It's a fact that no euro-amerikan scabs have ever been harmed and that being a racist oppressor explains everything that has happened in the western hemisphere since 1492. I read it in a 35 year old mimeographed zine written by someone who doesn't use capital letters, so you know it's legit.



westerm history is some epic shit, nothing to be ashamed of

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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what if e.t. and booker t had a baby? well, he'd be booker e.t., wouldn't he? and *I* think he might sound a little something...like this: "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is PHONE HOME"
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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i, too, oppose unions because this one time a bunch of white Mississippians killed some black people
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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more like Booger Teeth Wasshittyaton
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hi
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thanks for pointing out that mainstream, non-leftist unions have historically been racially reactionary OP.
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hi
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hey look, i can post examples of violence by capitalists against black labor organizers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibodaux_massacre
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/11/this-day-in-labor-history-november-22-1887

On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest black social movement in the state since the end of Reconstruction, whites killed dozens and perhaps hundreds of black workers, seeking to take control of the racial hierarchy, state politics, and labor relations back from empowered African-Americans.



see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Race_Riot

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my fav part of idaho history is that when governor frank steuenberg (elected with union support) crushed the coeur d'alene miner's strike he specifically requested black troops to do it (he would have used the idaho national guard but they were, ahem, busy in the philippines at the time and so only federal troops were available).