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Date Posted: 11:25:43 08/22/13 Thu
Author: points
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Subject: Re: Chapter 12: 1909-1920: The History of the United States of America
In reply to: edy 's message, "Chapter 12: 1909-1920: The History of the United States of America" on 11:21:52 08/22/13 Thu

points for chapter 12.

* Again, Coal miners went on strike in Virginia. President Wilson literally had bomber planes fly over and bomb them. This story, like why Jesse James was angry at the railroad company, is not found easily.

*1920. Women from all states can now legally vote.

{On a planet way way way outside of our solar systems: Zebww lost his job. He wasn�t sad at all; in fact he and the wife are headed for the jilu&j restaurant to eat dinner, as they do every F&&day. He and the wife are excited; because all this means is Zebww will go to the government Corp. There he will be given a job. �Of course this planet is a normal world, has no poverty.}

*"En route home, Debs was warmly received at the White House by Harding, who greeted him by saying: "Well, I've heard so damned much about you, Mr. Debs, that I am now glad to meet you personally." -- Wikipedia

*�The former New York radio station WEVD (now ESPN radio) was named in Deb�s honor.� pasted off Wikipedia

*Also, pasted off Wikipedia, part of Mr. Debs speech, when he was on trial for breaking the Espionage Act, which he tried so hard not to break, even: �Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means.�� [10 years in prison they gave him.]
"I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and factories; I am thinking of the women who, for a paltry wage, are compelled to work out their lives; of the little children who, in this system, are robbed of their childhood, and in their early, tender years, are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon, and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the machines while they themselves are being starved body and soul.��
His sentencing, Debs said: �Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.�
After Mr. Debs passed away, 1926, his writings concerning abuses in jail were published.

*Empathy sirs, is required, is your very soul. Has no right to opinion anything other then agreement that all who suffered the above, should not have.

*William Haywood was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. He also was a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America. He wanted to place all of Labor in the entire country under one Union.
�You work in the same mills together. Sometimes a black man and a white man chop down the same tree together. You are meeting in a convention now to discuss the conditions under which you labor. Why not be sensible about this and call the Negroes into the Convention? If it is against the law, this is one time when the law should be broken.� Haywood said. �Haywood had been a part of many Labor disputes, including the Colorado Labor Wars. Two scholars who studied labor violence said, �There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903-04� A miners dispute. The Western Federation of Miners, the WFM, 1905, was implicated in the bombing death of Frank Steunenbeg, at his home in Ohio. He had been a former governor. �.They found the person who did it; and a Pinkerton detective promised him he will escape hanging, and also get financial reward, if he will implicate the WFM Union. The Pinkerton agent also perjured papers saying falsely, that the WFM leader had been at the scene of the murder. ..Haywood was put on trial for murder, 1907, and he was represented by Clarence Darrow. He came out of this trial a well known figure. The case was dismissed. Debs referred to him as the �Lincoln of Labor.�
�The Socialist Party, [not to be confused with American Socialist Party], was created by 2 leaders, one who desired an overthrow of Capitalism, and the other, who desired reforms which will effectively be rid of the cruelties of low wages, once and for all. They desired reforms, without violence.
�Haywood however, more dramatic in his speech, used the term the Capitalists, in his speeches. He was an atheist, who wished America to be a cooperative commonwealth. He was a radical, who spoke with fervor; and fervor does tend to sound angry; but I could find no quote advocating violence or revolution.
�But it is important to understand that Attorney General Palmer, as likely his boss, President Wilson, did become very frightened over the Bolshevik Revolution. Palmer was convinced that a Communist overthrow could occur. [United States citizens, would never want dictatorship; likely not even one person; and Palmer�s fear was not rational; although the communist nation was real, brand new, thus, shocking.]
�.However, again to stress, most Socialists were simply wishing for reforms that work. They were against violence. Famous Socialists: Margaret Sanger, Helen Keller, William Du Bois, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London. Debs was in this group.
Haywood quote, off of Star Quotes Website. The mine owners �did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!�Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171. - View Quote Details on
Off Spartacus Education Website: �8 hour of work, 8 hours of play, 8 hours of sleep -- 8 hours a day!� Big Bill Haywood.
�After Haywood was sentenced to 20 years in prison for objecting to the war, he escaped to Bolchevek Russia, -- a brand new country. Lenin gave him work; Stalin took it away. It is said he missed the United States terribly. He married a Russian woman. -- Info. Also from Wikipedia

*Founding member of the Socialist Party in America: Congressman Victor Berger of Milwaukee. �He advocated the use of electoral politics to implement reforms and thus gradually build a collectivist society.� Wikipedia
He was raised in a family who were concerned about wages, Labor issues. And when he was sentenced to 20 years in jail, it was because he was an anti war pacifist.

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 � March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker and art collector. �. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company. �.Morgan went into banking in 1857 at his father's London branch
�..Morgan during the American Civil War was required by law to either serve himself or provide a substitute; he paid $300 for a substitute while he worked to finance the Union war effort. �Pasted off of Wikipedia. Morgan did not have a rags to riches story, as Andrew Carnegie did. But he was the big wealthy and famous financier of the day.

*Students: Andrew Carnegie�s life into a musical! Bill Haywood�s was never made into a movie, is odd. Eugene V. Debs. �As I say after every chapter, take a paragraph, see a show, do a play, create a union, dig up some off the wall interesting historical fact.

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