Today in Labor History April 6, 1905: The Teamsters launched a sympathy strike with clothing cutters in Chicago. The strike started on December 15, 1904, at Montgomery Ward. The company locked out the workers and tried to starve them. The strike quickly spread to other unions. By April 6, 1905, there were 5,000 clothing workers on the picket lines. The teamsters added another 10,000 of their own. The bosses tried to ram through armed wagons full of scabs. The strikers fought back. Things grew increasingly violent. By the time the strike ended in May, twenty-one people were dead, mostly workers.

Tories drop candidate who said Quebec massacre survivor plays ‘victim game’
Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out 'shameful' comments by dropped Conservative candidate Simon Payette.
#politics #election #massacre #Quebec #Canada #canadaelection
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116520/canada-election-conservative-candidate-dropped-simon-payette/

Tories drop candidate who said Quebec massacre survivor plays ‘victim game’
Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out 'shameful' comments by dropped Conservative candidate Simon Payette.
#politics #election #massacre #Quebec #Canada #canadaelection
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116520/canada-election-conservative-candidate-dropped-simon-payette/

Tories drop candidate who said Quebec massacre survivor plays ‘victim game’
Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out 'shameful' comments by dropped Conservative candidate Simon Payette.
#politics #election #massacre #Quebec #Canada #canadaelection
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116520/canada-election-conservative-candidate-dropped-simon-payette/

Tories drop candidate who said Quebec massacre survivor plays ‘victim game’
Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out 'shameful' comments by dropped Conservative candidate Simon Payette.
#politics #election #massacre #Quebec #Canada #canadaelection
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116520/canada-election-conservative-candidate-dropped-simon-payette/

Tories drop candidate who said Quebec massacre survivor plays ‘victim game’
Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out 'shameful' comments by dropped Conservative candidate Simon Payette.
#politics #election #massacre #Quebec #Canada #canadaelection
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116520/canada-election-conservative-candidate-dropped-simon-payette/

Today In Labor History April 3, 1948: Cheju Massacre in Korea. Between 1948 and 1949, one of the 20th century’s least known genocides occurred. On the island of Cheju-do, 30,000 civilians were massacred (10% of the island’s population) by the South Korean army, Cheju-do police and the U.S. military. However, the governor of Cheju told American intelligence that the real number was closer to 60,000. Another 30,000 people fled to Japan. The massacre was designed to suppress a worker uprising and General Strike.

616 mass shootings, 13,000 murders, and 30,000 gun-related deaths in the US in 2024.
Absolutely NOTHING done about them. #USA #Massacre #Politics

European Court rules #Ukraine guilty in #Odessa #massacre –

This ruling has received limited coverage in Western media outlets, as it confirms the Ukrainian regime’s support of the #neo_Nazis through its inaction and refusal to take any measures against the killers.

#Struggle, #LaLucha
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2025/03/20/european-court-rules-ukraine-guilty-in-odessa-massacre/

«Où sont ces porcs d’Alaouites?»: la Syrie prise dans le piège de la violence confessionnelle

À Arza, un village du nord-ouest de la #Syrie, plus de vingt-cinq résidents ont été tués, le 7 mars, dans un #massacre confessionnel. Les habitants sont désormais terrorisés à l’idée de rentrer chez eux.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/220325/ou-sont-ces-porcs-d-alaouites-la-syrie-prise-dans-le-piege-de-la-violence-confessionnelle?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

"The supermarket that was the site of the 2015 #HyperCachermassacre was set on fire in an #arson on Wednesday night, according to #French political leaders.

Paris 20th arrondissement Mayor Éric Pliez said on Instagram that the #arsonist's motives were not yet known, but the attack on the #Massacre site occurred under the context of a sharp increase of #antisemitism."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-846931#google_vignette

Today in Labor History March 12, 1967: Suharto took power from Sukarno in Indonesia. He ruled Indonesia as an authoritarian, kleptocratic dictator for 31 years, and is widely considered one of the most brutal and corrupt dictators of the 20th century. During that time, he amassed a fortune worth $38 billion. Suharto rose to power under Sukarno during the 1965-1966 genocide. During that ostensibly anti-Communist purge, Suharto’s troops murdered 1-3 million communists, labor activists, peasants and ethnic minorities. During that genocide, he received support military and economic from both the U.S. and the U.K. In 1974, the Suharto regime, with approval of U.S. president Gerald Ford, invaded East Timor, killing over 200,000 Timorese. Another 75,000-200,000 died from starvation and disease. The current Indonesian government is considering awarding him the posthumous honor of National Hero.

Today in Labor History March 5, 1940: Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, signed an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, cops and military officers. 14,700 of them were prisoners of war. This extrajudicial mass execution was known as the Katyn massacre. Afterwards, the Soviets tried to cover their tracks by blaming the Nazis for the massacre. They continued to deny responsibility until 1990, when the government finally acknowledged and condemned the killings and cover-up.

Today in Labor History March 5, 1917: Members of the IWW went on trial in Everett, Washington for the Everett Massacre, which occurred on November 5, 1916. In reality, they were the victims of an assault by a mob of drunken, vigilantes, led by Sheriff McRae. The IWW members had come to support the 5-month long strike by shingle workers. When their boat, the Verona, arrived, the Sheriff asked who their leader was. They replied, “We are all leaders.” Then the vigilantes began firing at their boat. They killed 12 IWW members and 2 of their own, who they accidentally shot in the back. Before the killings, 40 IWW street speakers had been taken by deputies to Beverly Park, where they were brutally beaten and run out of town. In his “USA” trilogy, John Dos Passos mentions Everett as “no place for the working man.” And Jack Kerouac references the Everett Massacre in his novel, “Dharma Bums.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #everett #massacre #policebrutality #vigilante #strike #union #police #policemurder #FreeSpeech #kerouac #dosassos #hisfic #novel #literature #writer #author #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History March 1, 1871: The victorious Prussian Army paraded through Paris after the Siege of Paris. Three weeks later, on March 18, radical soldiers from the French National Guard seized control of the city and established the Paris Commune. The workers controlled the city for two months. They abolished child labor and gave workers the right to seize businesses abandoned by the owners. They also dismantled the police and established their own self-policing. The French army quashed the commune beginning on May 21 with the Bloody Week. During that time, they slaughtered up to 20,000 people and arrested over 43,000.

Today in Labor History March 1, 1921: Anarchist and leftwing communist soldiers, sailors and civilians rose up against the Russian Bolsheviks in the Kronstadt uprising. The rebellion, which lasted until March 16, was the last major revolt against the Bolsheviks. It began when they sent delegates to Petrograd in solidarity with strikes going on in that city, and demanded the restoration of civil rights for workers, economic and political freedom for workers and peasants, including free speech, and that soviet councils include anarchists and left socialists. The Bolshevik forces, directed by Trotsky, killed over 1,000 Kronstadt rebels in battle, and executed another 2,100 in the aftermath. As many as 1,400 government troops died in their attempt to quash the rebellion.

Today in Labor History February 28, 2004: Over 2 million Taiwanese formed a 500-kilometer human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident and massacre.

Remembering the Lakota massacred at Wounded Knee.

A Prayer to Wounded Knee.

#Lakota #WoundedKnee #WoundedKneeMassacre #Indigenous  #massacre #USmassacre #USHistory #OTD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKA4DreEgkw

"Incident" (事件)? Satirist #TomTomorrow gives a perfect example of when you •shouldn't• use that word.
http://thismodernworld.com/archives/7617
#massacre
#228_Massacre
#二二八大屠殺
#WordsDoMeanThings