Today in Labor History April 20, 1914: National Guards opened fire on a mining camp during a strike in Ludlow, Colorado, killing five miners, two women, and twelve children. By the end of the strike, they had killed more than 75 people. The strike involved 10,000 members of the united Mine Workers of America (UMW), 1,200 of whom had been living in the Ludlow tent colony. Many of the “Guards” were actually goons and vigilantes hired by the Ludlow Mine Field owner, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. During the assault, they opened fire on strikers and their families with machine guns and set fire to the camp.

Mining was (and still is) a dangerous job. At the time, Colorado miners were dying on the job at a rate of more than 7 deaths per 1,000 employees. The working conditions were not only unsafe, but terribly unfair, too. Workers were paid by the ton for coal that they extracted, but weren’t paid for so-called “dead work” like shoring up unstable roofs and tunnels. This system encouraged miners to risk their lives by ignoring safety precautions and preparations so that they would have more time to extract and deliver coal. Miners also lived in “company towns” where the boss not only owned their housing and the stores that supplied their food and clothing, but charged inflated prices for these services. Furthermore, the workers were paid in “scrip,” a currency that was valid only in the company towns. So even if workers had a way to get to another store, they had no money to purchase anything. Therefore, much of what the miners earned went back into the pockets of their bosses.

In the wake of the Ludlow Massacre, bands of armed miners attacked mine guards and anti-union establishments. In nearby Trinidad, they openly distributed arms from the UMWA headquarters. Over the next ten days, miners attacked mines, killing or driving off guards and scabs, and setting building on fire. They also fought sporadic skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard. In June of 1914, a number of anarchists decided to seek revenge on Rockefeller. Alexander Berkman (a former lover, and friend, of Emma Goldman) helped plan the assassination at the New York Ferrer Center. This was also the home to the anarchist Modern School, which Berkman helped create. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three anarchists. These events led to infiltration of the school and center by undercover cops.

You can read my complete article on Ludlow and the Colorado Labor Wars here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

And my complete article on the Modern School Movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

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"Robber baron" is a pejorative term used to describe powerful and wealthy American industrialists and financiers during the late 19th century, an era often referred to as the Gilded Age. The term implies social criticism, suggesting these businessmen were unethical, unscrupulous, or ruthless in their practices.

They were accused of amassing their fortunes through exploitative methods, such as monopolizing large industries (often by forming trusts), restricting output to raise prices, exploiting workers through practices like wage slavery, engaging in unethical business dealings, squashing competition, and influencing government officials. The term combines the idea of criminal behavior ("robber") with illegitimate aristocracy ("baron").

Some prominent figures commonly labeled as robber barons include John D. #Rockefeller, Andrew #Carnegie, Cornelius #Vanderbilt, J.P. #Morgan, and Leland #Stanford, among others.

https://www.britannica.com/money/robber-baron

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View From the Top of The Rock Rockefeller Center NYC

Rockefeller Center is one of the most iconic landmarks in New York City, a vibrant hub of culture, history, and entertainment located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

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Today in Labor History January 12, 1928: Police raided the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Halls, in Walsenburg and Trinidad Colorado. They killed two union members in the process. This was near the site of the Ludlow Massacre where, in 1914, National Guards slaughtered 21 people, including two women and eleven children, on behalf of John D. Rockefeller. Conditions were still deplorable, with 12-hour days, 6-day work weeks, and regular fatalities in the mines. The IWW had been leading a miners’ strike in the region since October 18, 1927. Over 8,000 men walked out, shutting down 113 out of 126 mines in the state. Police routinely arrested picketers en masse. They’d move them from jail to jail to make it harder for their lawyers to find them. Sometimes they deported them from the state and threatened to shoot them if they returned. The strike ended in February, with concessions to the workers, but no IWW representation.

You can read my complete article on the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

TIL The wood from the #Rockefeller Christmas tree becomes lumber for #HabitatForHumanity houses
#Christmas #tradition #reuse #recycling #JimmyCarter #hope

Could you imagine if all the people who were obsessed with George Soros looked deeply into the Rockefeller family instead?

Elderly David Rockefeller was a spitting image clone of George Soros and he attended like 98% of all the Bilderberg Group meetings.

Alternative Views had a lot of suppressed deep politics for an ultra-low-budget cable news show from Austin, TX. Here's their report on the Rockefellers from 1978. https://youtu.be/BGUkAIfzSxs?si=bw-Q8z9fqBbARN7J

Today in Labor History January 1, 1934: A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" went into effect in Nazi Germany. The Eugenics research that Hitler used to justify torture and genocide was inspired by similar research from the U.S. The American eugenics movement originated in the 1880s, from the biological determinist ideas of Francis Galton. He believed that selective breeding could improve the human race and allow them to direct their own evolution. The U.S. eugenics movement was heavily funded by the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. Biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1911. The ERO trained field workers, who they sent to study people in mental hospitals and orphanages across the U.S. Davenport and others began to lobby for solutions to the problem of the "unfit." They lobbied for immigration restrictions and sterilization. Some even promoted the idea of extermination, well before Hitler became known for it. Some well-known eugenicists of the early 20th century included Alexander Graham Bell, Luther Burbank and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The eugenics movement tended to target the poor, people with disabilities and mentally illness, and specific communities of color as “unfit” for society. Their solutions included forced sterilization, which continued in the U.S. until as recently as 2010. From 1997-2010, California performed nonconsensual sterilizations on roughly 1,400 women prisoners. From 1929-1973, North Carolina sterilized the third highest number of people in the United States, roughly 7,600 people, predominantly African American women.

Here it is !
#xmastree #rockefeller #midtown #nyc #newyork

It was reporters and editors for the hundreds of independent newspapers during the First Gilded Age (1880-1900) era that led the crusades against #Rockefeller and his fellow #monopolists.

Investigative journalism was all the rage then, and it fed public demand for a return to #competition and the de-throning of that age’s #oligarchs.

The vast majority of workers were struggling and they worked for a very small 10 percent of the population who controlled most of the nation’s wealth (a situation we’re at again).

The result was constant strife, #strikes, and the murder of labor leaders;
entire towns were in arms (and sometimes ablaze) with #labor conflict.

The “problem of labor”was the number one issue of the day.
As President Grover Cleveland
— the only Democrat elected during that period
— proclaimed in his 1887 State of the Union address:

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies,
while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel.
Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.”

... But back to Jeff #Bezos and his 2013 purchase of The #Washington #Post.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/democracy-dies-in-their-wallets-when-ec9

Today in Labor History September 28, 1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. The players were acquitted by the jury, but they were still banned for life from professional baseball by Major League Baseball’s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, thus ruining their careers. Yet New York gangster, Arnold Rothstein, who orchestrated the Black Sox scandal, was never punished. The biggest loser in the Black Sox case was probably Shoeless Joe Jackson. Had he not been banned for life, he might have gone on to become one of the greatest hitters of all time, possibly even better than Ty Cobb. Jackson hit .408 in 1911, his rookie year. Babe Ruth said he modeled his batting style after Jackson. Landis, like Cobb, was a virulent racist, but with the power to actively upheld the league’s ban on black players.

Landis was also famous for fining Standard Oil $29 million (that would be nearly $1 billion in today’s dollars). John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard Oil, said Landis would be dead long before he paid the fine. He was right. A court of appeals reversed the fine in 1908. Landis was also infamous for persecuting leftists and labor leaders (mostly foreign-born socialists, anarchists and Wobblies), including Big Bill Haywood, of the IWW, for resisting World War One. Landis referred to the leftist defendants as "scum," "filth," and "slimy rats." Haywood received a 20-year sentence, jumped bail, and fled to the Soviet Union, where he remained until his death. He is one of two Americans buried in the Kremlin wall, along with communist journalist John Reed. Haywood kept a portrait of Landis on his apartment wall, in Moscow, quite likely so he could spit on it each day. Reed, who covered the war resisters’ trial, wrote the following about Landis:

“Small on the huge bench sits a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth; the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead ... Upon this man has devolved the historic role of trying the Social Revolution. He is doing it like a gentleman. In many ways a most unusual trial. When the judge enters the court-room after recess, no one rises—he himself has abolished the pompous formality. He sits without robes, in an ordinary business suit, and often leaves the bench to come down and perch on the step of the jury box. By his personal orders, spittoons are placed by the prisoners' seats ... and as for the prisoners themselves, they are permitted to take off their coats, move around, read newspapers. It takes some human understanding for a Judge to fly in the face of judicial ritual as much as that.”

Without a doubt, the Rockefeller billionaires don't need to enrich themselves even further. It would be insane to let scams like that happen, again, and again & again...
https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california
...especially for them.

#StandardOil cut outs like #ExxonMobil wouldn't deceive CONsumers and YOUsers with fraudulent marketing, don't they? At least not during inflation!?

Somehow it's hard to ignore the irony of " #philantropists " like JD #Rockefeller after he became the first #billionaire driven by
massive #greed, a #monopoly and brutal #exploitation of (our Mother!) #Nature & #Peoples.

If You wonder How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World, this documentary is made for YOU...
https://corbettreport.com/bigoil/

Today in Labor History September 23, 1913: The United Mine Workers of America began the first of a series of strikes which would escalate into the Colorado Coalfield War. Miners were fighting the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) for safer working conditions and better pay. From 1884 and 1912, Colorado miners averaged 6.81 deaths per every 1,000 miners, a fatality rate over double the national average of 3.12. However, two mine explosions in 1910 brought the state mining mortality rate to above 10, triple the national average. Due to jury tampering by the company, Rockefeller was never held accountable and never had to pay out any settlements. CF&I virtually owned the political apparatus of Colorado. The company registered every one of its employees to vote, even non-citizen immigrants and company mules, in a tactic that would make today’s Republicans blush. The Colorado Coalfied War lasted over next two years and resulted in up to 200 deaths, including over 37 soldiers and private cops working for Rockefeller. The war included the Ludlow Massacre, when National Guards massacred at least 19 people living in a tent colony, including 12 children and three women. In retaliation for this unprovoked massacre, armed miners attacked mines, killing scabs, destroying property, and fighting National Guard troops. It was possibly the bloodiest labor dispute in U.S. history. Rockefeller used both Pinkertons and Baldwin-Felts private detectives to protect scabs and intimidate striking miners. They would attack mining camps with machine guns mounted on a car dubbed the “Death Special.” The authorities repeatedly jailed Mother Jones, who had come to support the strike. During one arrest, miners tried to free her but were repelled by National Guards. On the first day of the strike, she said during a speech: "Rise up and strike! If you are too cowardly, there are enough women in this country to come in here and beat the hell out of you."

Read my article on the Ludlow massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

Read my article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

The proof in the pudding is that CIA pioneer Allen #Dulles was in fact a finance big wig himself, connected directly to the Rockefellers and huge firms like JP #Morgan. Thanks to this, the first official headquarters of the CIA was in #Rockefeller Plaza in NYC, where Dulles also had his office. Thus, the Rockefellers and global financial interests, which were mostly run by Jewish-Zionist banking families, had total control of the CIA from the very beginning, and do so to this day. Most consider the Rockefellers themselves to simply be the American ‘agents’ for House #Rothschild, who pretty much created Israel via the Balfour Declaration, and famous photos attest to them at least being close:

Today in Labor History June 22, 1914: Anarchists, intending to bomb the Rockefeller Mansion, accidentally blew up the Ferrer Center for anarchist education, killing three anarchists and putting a temporary end to the Modern School. They had been seeking revenge against Rockefeller’s Standard Oil for the Ludlow Massacre (4/20/1914), in which Colorado National Guards and private cops, hired by Rockefeller, attacked a tent colony of 1,200 miners and their families, killing 21, including women and children. The private cops were from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, same ones involved in the Matewan Massacre in West Virginia. From September 1913 through end of May, 1914, up to 200 people had died in the Colorado Coalfield War, including 37 cops, soldiers and private detectives fighting for the coal companies, making it one of the deadliest strikes in U.S. history.

Read my full article on the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

Read my full article on the Modern School movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

Today in labor history April 28, 1919: Anarchists mailed 36 booby-trapped packages to enemies of the working class. Inside each package was a 6” x 3” block of hollowed wood filled with dynamite. Their targets included U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, because he had been imprisoning and deporting anarchists and union activists, including Emma Goldman. Other targets included J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

Today in Labor History April 20, 1914: the National Guard and private cops opened fire on a mining camp during a strike in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 21 people, including women, and at least twelve children. By the end of the strike, they had killed over 200 people. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I), owner of the mine, had recently testified before Congress for its role in strike-breaking. The investigations that followed placed the blame for the massacre on CF&I, which was run by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the richest man in U.S. history, (worth $410 billion in 2022 dollars.)

Colorado miners were dying on the job at a rate of more than 7 deaths per 1,000 employees. Workers were paid by the ton for coal that they extracted, but weren’t paid for so-called “dead work” like shoring up unstable roofs and tunnels. This system encouraged miners to risk their lives by ignoring safety precautions and preparations so that they would have more time to extract and deliver coal. Miners also lived in “company towns” where the boss not only owned their housing, and the stores that supplied their food and clothing, but charged inflated prices for these services. Furthermore, the workers were paid in “scrip,” a currency that was valid only in the company towns. So, even if workers had a way to get to another store, they had no money to purchase anything. Therefore, much of what the miners earned went back into the pockets of their bosses.

During the assault on the Ludlow camp, they opened fire on strikers and their families with machine guns, and set fire to the camp. Many of the “National Guards” were actually goons and vigilantes hired by Rockefeller to intimidate the miners. And the private cops were from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, the same company that later participated in the Matewan Massacre, and the Battle of Blair Mountain, in West Virginia.

In the wake of the Ludlow Massacre, Alexander Berkman (a former lover, and friend, of Emma Goldman) helped plan the assassination of Rockefeller at the New York Ferrer Center, home to the anarchist Modern School. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three anarchists. (Berkman had previously served 14 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick because of his responsibility for the massacre of seven striking steelworkers during the Homestead Strike, in 1892.)

You can read my complete article on the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

You can read my article on Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

And my article on the anarchist Modern School movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

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