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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tsyum@thepit.social ("ts 🚇") wrote:

We remember that the "weekend" was a radical leftist idea in 1886. Thank god for the ancestors who have fought on our behalf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%5FView%5Fmassacre

Wisconsin's governor had seven union members killed during what is now referred to as the Bay View Massacre. Thankfully the vast majority of people (some 14,000) went on to live beyond the strike.

#history #remember #USA

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