1918 - US: Trial of 101 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the
World; IWW) begins in Chicago, for opposition to World War
I; tried for violating the Espionage Act..
I doubt if ever in history there has been a sight just like
them. One hundred & one lumberjacks, harvest hands,
miners, editors . . . who believe the wealth of the world
belongs to him who creates it . . . the outdoor men, hard-
rock blasters, tree-fellers, wheat-binders, longshoremen,
the boys who do the strongwork of the world. . . ."
� John Reed
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/exhibits/iww.html
See: A People's History of the United States, by Howard
Zinn
or George, Harrison, The I.W.W. Trial: Story of the Greatest Trial
in Labor's History by One of the Defendants,
Chicago: IWW, [1919]. 208 pages
1942 -- Let us remember �
On this day in 1942 the US Government began removing
Americans from their homes without benefit of trial,
indictment or any other legal anachronisms, &
forced them into detention centers hundreds of miles away,
in the middle of the desert.
1970 - US: Male Call?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
President Dick'M Nixon declares national emergency, orders
30,000 troops to New York City to break Postal Wildcat
Strike.
1983 - In his "Star Wars" speech Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan proposes a
space-based system to blast incoming missiles out of the
sky -- just like the 1940 film �Murder in the Air�,
whose hero, Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft
(played by Ronnie Reagan!), gets involved with the
"Inertia Projector," a death ray that can zap planes.
http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~thomabe/sw-archive.html
