33 points
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history
And I had never heard of it. Although I’m not American.
53 points
It’s crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.
29 points
Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
14 points
Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
