Today in labor history July 27 Mine Workers organizer Ginger Goodwin was shot by a hired private cop

[Omaha Steve]

July 27

William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union, died - 1869

July 27, 1918 - United Mine Workers organizer Ginger Goodwin was shot by a hired private policeman outside Cumberland, British Columbia.

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1. Apparently the new blood here doesn't give a shit!

If this was a Tony Snow obit hundreds of DU'ers would have
leapt to mourn his loss by now.

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When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.

--Vladimir Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)