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Today in Labor History July 22, 1916: Someone set off a bomb during the pro-war “Preparedness Day” parade in San Francisco. As a result, 10 people died and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Billings and Mooney were both anarchists and members of the IWW. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local San Francisco paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.

In 1937, Mooney filed a writ of habeas corpus, providing evidence that his conviction was based on perjured testimony and evidence tampering. Among this evidence was a photograph of him in front of a large, ornate clock, on Market Street, clearly showing the time of the bombing and that he could not have been at the bombing site when it occurred. The Alibi Clock was later moved to downtown Vallejo, twenty-five miles to the northeast of San Francisco. Alibi Bookshop, in Vallejo, is named after this clock. On May 11, 2024, I did a reading there from my working-class historical novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, during the Book Release Party for Roberta Tracy’s, Zig Zag Woman. Her novel takes place at the time of the Los Angeles Times bombing, in 1910, when two other labor leaders, the McNamara brothers, were framed.

In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, "By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening... Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly."

You can read my complete article on Mooney and Billings here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/

You can get Anywhere But Schuylkill here:
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Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!
And purchase Zigzag Woman here:
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#workingclass #LaborHistory #warrenbillings #tommooney #sanfrancisco #bombing #anarchism #union #IWW #labor #alexanderberkman #prison #emmagoldman #playwright #theater #books #writer #author #historicalfiction #novel #author #anywherebutschuylkill #zigzagwoman @bookstadon

Today in Labor History July 22, 1877: A General Strike began in St. Louis, as part of the national Great Upheaval wave of wildcat strikes. The St. Louis strike is generally considered the first General Strike in U.S. history. It was organized by the communist Workingman’s Party and the Knights of Labor. In addition to joining in solidarity with striking rail workers, thousands in other trades came out to fight for the 8-hour day and an end to child labor. For nearly a week, workers controlled all functions of society. Black and white workers united, even though the unions were all segregated. At one rally, a black steamboat worker asked the crowd if they would stand behind levee workers, regardless of race. “We will!” they shouted back. Another speaker said, “The people are rising up in their might and declaring they will no longer submit to being oppressed by unproductive capital.”

Whereas most of the worker uprisings that were occurring throughout the U.S. were spontaneous wildcat strikes (as most of the unions were opposed to the great strike), the situation in St. Louis was led by communists and was revolutionary. “There was a time in the history of France when the poor found themselves oppressed to such an extent that forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and hundreds of heads tumbled into the basket. That time may have arrived with us.” A cooper said this to a crowd of 10,000 workers in St. Louis, in July, 1877. He was referring to the Paris Commune, which happened just six years prior. Like the Parisian workers, the Saint Louis strikers openly called for the use of arms, not only to defend themselves against the violence of the militias and police, but for outright revolutionary aims: “All you have to do is to unite on one idea—that workingmen shall rule this country. What man makes, belongs to him, and the workingmen made this country.”

Karl Marx enthusiastically followed events during the Great Strike. He called it “the first uprising against the oligarchy of capital since the Civil War.” He predicted that it would inevitably be suppressed, but might still “be the point of origin for the creation of a serious workers’ party in the United States.” Ironically, many of the Saint Louis activists were followers of Ferdinand Lasalle, whom Marx despised, and who believed that communist revolution could happen through the vote. And some of them, like Albert Currlin, a Workingmen’s Party leader in Saint Louis, were outright racists, who mistrusted the black strikers and refused to work with them, undermining the success of the commune. Ultimately, 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized police (i.e., vigilantes) ended the strike by killing at least 18 people and arresting at least 70.

My novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” is about the coal strike that preceded the Great Upheaval. My work in progress, “Red Hot Summer in the Big Smoke,” opens exactly two weeks prior to the start of the Great Upheaval, with the mass execution of innocent coal miners and union organizers who were framed by the Pinkertons.

You can get my novel from any of these indie retailers:
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Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

You can read my complete article on the Great Upheaval here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/

You can read my complete article on the Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #greatupheaval #paris #commune #Revolutionary #communism #saintlouis #pinkertons #GeneralStrike #wildcat #strike #knightsoflabor #workingmensparty #marx #solidarity #books #author #writer #fiction #historicalfiction @bookstadon

"On this day in 1849, #Jewish #writer and #activist Emma Lazarus was born in #NewYorkCity.

Lazarus is, of course, most famous for “The New Colossus,” the #sonnet with the famous lines “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” that’s practically synonymous with the #StatueofLiberty.

The #poem — which was written in 1883 for an exhibition designed to raise money to build the statue’s pedestal — gives voice to the Statue of Liberty, which was initially designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi as tribute the Enlightenment and Franco-American friendship. Lazarus’ words transformed the statue into a “Mother of Exiles” who served as a beacon of hope for #immigrants arriving at New York Harbor.

“The New Colossus” may be Lazarus’ lasting legacy, but she was far more than just a one-hit wonder."

jta.org/2025/07/22/ny/11-fasci

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · 11 fascinating facts about Emma Lazarus, the Jewish writer who gave voice to the Statue of LibertyAv Lisa Keys
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@Remittancegirl Thanks for that article! As a professional #writer, I read it with interest, especially about that 'strange emotional charge' (best stuff for SciFi plots!).
Note to myself: I have to stop writing clipped triads.😂
'to prize product over process'/' have to actively resist' such important points!
I think O'Rourke doesn't even need that study, you only have to ask #writers with a well-known individual style and outstanding texts which don't sound like copies.
#Writing is indeed so

Today in Writing History July 21, 1899: Ernest Hemingway was born. Hemingway was a journalist, novelist and short story writer. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. Hemingway was famous for his “square, tight” prose, which was influenced by his experience as a journalist and as a soldier. He was an ambulance driver during World War I and he volunteered on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Of his stories, my two personal favorites are “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and “Old Man and the Sea.” I recently watched the documentary “Spanish Earth,” made in 1937, filmed during and about the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway narrated it, along with Orson Welles. He also cowrote the script, along with another favorite writer of mine, John Dos Passos.

youtu.be/MT8q6VAyTi8?t=608

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hemingway #dospassos #orsonwelles #spain #civilwar #antifascism #antifa #anarchism #NobelPrize #writing #writer #books #author #fiction #novel @bookstadon

Today in Labor History July 21, 1877: 30,000 Chicago workers rallied on Market Street during the Great Upheaval wave of strikes occurring throughout the country. Future anarchist and Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons spoke to the crowd, advocating the use of the ballot to obtain "state control of the means of production," and urged workers to join the communist Workingmen's Party. Parsons was later abducted by armed men who took him to the police where he was interrogated and informed that he had caused the city great trouble. These events helped radicalize him, as well as his wife, Lucy parson, who would go on to cofound the IWW, and moved them both away from electoral politics and directly into radical anarchist activism. Lucy condoned political violence, self-defense against racial violence, and class struggle against religion.

The strike wave started in Martinsburg, W.V., on July 16, and quickly spread along the railroad lines throughout the country. In Chicago, striking workers from numerous industries took to the streets daily. They shut down the railroads, mills, foundries and many other businesses. They carried banners that said "Life by work, or death by fight". One speaker said, "We must rise up in our might, and fight for our rights. Better a thousand of us be shot down in the streets than ten thousand die of starvation."

On July 26, the protesters threw rocks and fired pistols at the cops, who fired back until they ran out of ammo and were forced them to flee. However, they ran into a detachment of reinforcements and federal troops, sent in by President Hayes. This led to the Battle of the Viaduct, resulting in 15-30 dead strikers and dozens wounded. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.”

In Pittsburgh, 20 striking railroad workers were killed by state troopers during the Great Upheaval. The second book of my “Great Upheaval” trilogy, “Hot Summer in the Smoky City,” takes place in Pittsburgh during the Great Upheaval. My first book, Anywhere But Schuylkill, takes place just before the Great Upheaval begins.

You can get my book here:
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Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

Read my complete article on the Great Upheaval here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/

Read my complete article on Lucy Parsons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #GreatUpheaval #railroad #chicago #massacre #children #GeneralStrike #IWW #police #policebrutality #AnywhereButSchuylkill #anarchim #communism #albertparsons #haymarket #novel #books #fiction #historicalfiction #writer #author #wildcat @bookstadon

Today in Labor History July 20 1877: In the midst of the Great Upheaval (AKA Great Train Strike), the Maryland state militia fired on striking railroad workers in Baltimore, killing over 20, including children. The strike had started on July 14, in Martinsburg, WV, at the B&O Railroad yards. It quickly spread into Charleston, WV and Baltimore and Cumberland, MD. In Baltimore, as the 5th Regiment marched toward Camden Station with fixed bayonets on their Springfield rifles, crowds attacked them with bricks. Miraculously, no serious injuries occurred. However, when the 6th Regiment began their march, the crowds drove them off with paving stones and fists. Without orders, they began firing at the crowd, killing several. When the two regiments met at Camden Station, the crowds again hurled stones and bricks, disabling locomotives, tearing up tracks and driving off the engineers. They set fire to railroad cars and buildings and cut the firemen’s hoses when they tried to douse the flames.

The Great Upheaval came in the middle of the Long Depression, one of the worst depressions the U.S. has ever faced. My novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” takes place in the years leading up to the Great Strike and is Part I of “The Great Upheaval” trilogy. I am currently working on Book II: “Red Hot Summer in the Smoky City.”

You can get a copy here:

keplers.com/
greenapplebooks.com/

Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

Read my full article on the Great Upheaval here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #GreatUpheaval #railroad #baltimore #massacre #children #GeneralStrike #AnywhereButSchuylkill #novel #books #fiction #historicalfiction #writer #author #wildcat @bookstadon

Heute in der Geschichte der #Arbeiterklasse: 20. Juli 1549: Beginn der Ketts Rebellion gegen die Einfriedungen. Am 6. Juli fingen die Rebellen an, Einfriedungen in Morley St. Botolph zu zerstören. Als sie am 20. Juli das Anwesen von John Flowerdew angriffen, versuchte er, sie zu bestechen, damit sie stattdessen das Anwesen von Robert Kett angreifen. Der Plan ging aber nach hinten los, als Kett sich den Rebellen anschloss und ihnen half, seine eigenen Zäune niederzureißen. Ihre 3.500 Mann starke Volksarmee eroberte Norwich. Sie stellten die Landbesitzer massenhaft vor Gericht und gründeten auf Mousehold Heath eine Republik. Die Bewegung gewann an Stärke, die Armee wuchs auf 16.000 Mann an. Die Behörden schlugen den Aufstand schließlich nieder. Insgesamt starben 3.000 Rebellen und 250 Söldner des Staates in den Kämpfen. Aber Kett lehnte die Begnadigung des Königs ab und sagte: „Könige begnadigen normalerweise böse Menschen, nicht unschuldige Männer. Wir haben nichts getan, um eine solche Begnadigung zu verdienen. Wir haben uns keines Verbrechens schuldig gemacht.“ Daraufhin folterten die Behörden Kett und hängten ihn langsam über mehrere Tage hinweg.

Zahlreiche historische Romane haben Ketts Rebellion thematisiert: „Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak“ (1876) von Frederick H. Moore; „For Kett and Countryside“ (1910) von F.C. Tansley; „The Great Oak“ (1949) von Jack Lindsay; „A Rebellious Oak“ (2012) von Margaret Callow und „Tombland“ (2018) von C.J. Sansom. #workingclass #LaborHistory #rebellion #uk #england #enclosures #uprising #HistoricalFiction #novel #book #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon Quelle: Post von @MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 20, 1549: Kett's Rebellion against the enclosures began. Insurgents began destroying enclosures in Morley St. Botolph on July 6. When they attacked the estate of John Flowerdew, on July 20, he tried to bribe them into attacking the estate of Robert Kett, instead. However, the plan backfired when Kett joined the rebels and helped them to tear down his own fences. Their 3,500-strong peoples' army captured Norwich. They tried landowners en masse and established a Commonwealth on Mousehold Heath. The movement gained strength, with the army growing to 16,000. The authorities eventually quashed the rebellion. Overall, 3,000 rebels and 250 mercenaries of the state died in the battles. But Kett refused the King's pardon, arguing: "Kings are wont to pardon wicked persons, not innocent men. We have done nothing to deserve such a pardon. We have been guilty of no crime." In response, the authorities tortured and hanged Kett slowly over several days.

Numerous historical novels have portrayed Kett's rebellion: “Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak” (1876), by Frederick H. Moore; “For Kett and Countryside” (1910), by F.C. Tansley; “The Great Oak” (1949), by Jack Lindsay; “A Rebellious Oak” (2012), by Margaret Callow and “Tombland” (2018), by C.J. Sansom.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rebellion #uk #england #enclosures #uprising #HistoricalFiction #novel #book #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Writing History, July 19, 1875: Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist was born. She was a prominent part of the Harlem Renaissance. She published her first collection of short stories and poems, “Violets and Other Tales,” in 1895. In 1910s, she co-founded the Equal Suffrage Study Club and was a field organizer for the woman's suffrage movement. In the 1920s-1930s, she was very active in the movements for African Americans' and women's rights, campaigned for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill and spoke in support of the Scottsboro defendants." She was married three times to men, but also had lesbian affairs on the side. Her first husband, Paul Laurence Dunbar, was also a Harlem Renaissance writer. He was an alcoholic, who raped and regularly beat her, one time nearly to death. He died in 1906 from tuberculosis and alcoholism. After his death, she taught high school and attended Cornell University. She was most active in organizing for women’s and African American rights in the 1920s-1930s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #BlackLivesMater #racism #lynching #feminism #womensrights #poet #poetry #BlackMastadon #books #writer #equalrights #activism @bookstadon

Today in Women’s History, July 19, 1848: The famous two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York, promoted as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." Female Quakers organized the meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Many of the attendees opposed the inclusion of women’s suffrage in their Declaration of Sentiments. However, Frederick Douglass, who was the only African American attendee, argued strongly for its inclusion. As a result, attendees ultimately voted to retain the suffrage resolution.

“Seneca Falls Inheritance,” by Miriam Grace Monfredo, is a historical novel that takes place in Seneca Falls at the time of the convention. Lisa Tetrault’s, “The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898,” argues that the notion that Seneca Falls was the birthplace and the feminist movement was promoted, in part, to help Stanton and Anthony maintain centralized control of the movement. She further argues that the Seneca Falls myth downplays or eliminates the role of African American activists and abolitionists in the fight for women’s rights and suffrage.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #womenshistory #womensrights #abolition #slavery #racism #historicalfiction #novel #books #writer #author @bookstadon

Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #EmmaGoldman #russia #soviet #ussr #communism #kronstadt #rebellion #massacre #writer #author #writer #books #journalism #magazine @bookstadon