• Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    A hundred years ago coal miners were facing down machine guns and disappearing mysteriously then ending up dead in burlap sacks on the train tracks where I am from. The company was taking everything they earned for rent and groceries at the company housing departments and company store and people couldn’t feed their families after working all week in the mines. They fought the labor wars for 4 years to get unions instituted. They’d openly fight any blue collar/labor type worker now with their unions are pointless, back the blue and the ones that treat us the worst should govern.