Uncle Sam: And the Battle at Homestead!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:19 AM
From: The HAWK
Harbor City, December 29,
2009
"No nation has had a more violent
labor history than the United States." Undoubtedly, the bloodiest years in all
this history of violence were those from 1877 to 1919. The major violent
strikes
of these years include the 1877 railroad strike, the 1892 strikes at Homestead
and at Coeur d'Alene, the 1894 Pullman strike, the Colorado labor war of
1913-14, and the 1919 steel strike. And how much of it can we remember? Did our
wars camouflage these events and actions? "I should welcome almost any
war," said Teddy Roosevelt, "for I
think this country needs one"! And that was in 1897. A
year later he had his "splendid little war."
And wars we had ever since.
Great and little ones. And our corporations grew. And our "reporters" played
along. The people lost their power, after they lost their "references." and
their real leaders. "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" asked Lee Iacocca. And
the media is silent. Our once cherished "free press"! Our papers promote
cheerleaders and imposters, and ignore all those who dare to speak up. And yes,
"Peace," as Jim Box had said, is "a terrible thing" for the South Bay; and John
Bogert? Is war so sweet [for "business"], that we sacrifice our own children?
And yes, we love our heroes too. And the great funerals [re: "Daily Breeze"].
Why talk about those who suffer for promoting peace [i.e. the "losers"], if we
can celebrate Uncle Sam's handymen? It's so much safer, and so much more
rewarding.
We only asked "Who Really Controls?"
--and we were terminated [1984], or eradicated, as "Henry K" would say. And
Henry has **connections**; here in the South Bay too. We just love our
Bavarians, not only our Beemers, even if they're from Samoa. Now we have
disbarred King running the show, after the Rotters had been fired. But the
question still remains, WHO REALLY controls? Certainly not ex-lawyer
Gerald King. But the "German-American League" is silent. And so is our
"Breeze." And our genuine "Donauschwaben" were silenced a long time ago. The
"stockholders" are in hiding. Including the Merlis and elusive Uncle Ernie.
Gottfried Merli (41) spoke up, in Kevin Cody's "Easy Reader" [Hermosa
Beach]; he suffered a fatal heart-attack [1996]. His daddy was on a vacation,
with our notorious Judge Shook, aka "the
LIAR"!
Best regards,
Karlheinz
Karlheinz A. Halter,
Pres.
Austro-California Club
P.O. Box
308
HARBOR CITY
California 90710
U.S.A.
And the 9-11 Story: Former Minnesota Governor Reveals Black Box
Mystery
By Victor Thorn
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura’s Dec. 9
broadcast of Conspiracy Theory ended with a major disclosure. Not only did
recovery and rescue worker Mike Bellone reiterate earlier 2004 claims that the
FBI had recovered three of the four "black boxes" from Ground Zero of the World
Trade Center, but he also quoted a supervisor for American Airlines Flight
11.
This woman monitored the actual live transmissions emanating from
this airliner; and according to her, the "hijackers" were already in the
plane’s
cockpit prior to takeoff. Further, she claimed others on the ground were fully
aware of this situation while Flight 11 taxied on the runway, and they still
allowed it to take off.
Initially, Bellone promised to produce this
employee for Ventura, but she declined an interview at the last minute out of
fear for her life. After having her house, car and cell phone bugged, federal
officials frightened her into not talking. Bellone also divulged that FBI
officials told him not to discuss this matter with the media.
Could this
startling revelation be the reason why 9-11 Commission members determined that
no black boxes had been located in the rubble? If the American public listened
to these recordings and heard Arabic (as well as English) being spoken in the
cockpit before take-off, the entire scam would be revealed.
However, this
line of reasoning doesn’t imply that the "19 terrorists" blamed for this attack
were actually the perpetrators. Instead, it adds further weight to the premise
that they filled the role of patsies. For starters, there is still no concrete
evidence that any of these individuals ever boarded the four flights. Rather,
were they merely useful idiots who mistakenly thought they were partaking in a
hijacking, when in reality Flights 11 and 175 were operated via remote control
after take-off to strike WTC 1 and 2? In this sense, similar to Lee Harvey
Oswald, who had an elaborate "legend" created around himself prior to the JFK
assassination and was deliberately placed on the scene; were they too the
byproducts of an elaborately constructed plot to shift blame away from the
actual culprits?
Additional evidence of a cover-up arose when Ventura
questioned FBI counter-terrorism expert Jack Cloonan, who stated rhetorically,
"Does the U.S. government do things in the dead of night that they don’t want
seen in the light of day? Of course they do." Then, when told that September 11
may be the first time ever in the history of recorded flight where four black
boxes completely vanished, Cloonan replied, "So what?"
Airline
investigative expert Dave Leppard also acknowledged that he’d never once been
at
a crash site where the black boxes (actually orange) had not been discovered.
He
then proceeded to describe how these very distinct, bright orange boxes made
out
of titanium are virtually indestructible. "The odds are almost zero percent
that
they’re not found," he concluded. Journalist Dave Lindorff next weighed in by
recounting a meeting he had with NTSB officials. After inquiring whether the
FBI
had secured these devices, he was asked, "Do you want the real answer, or the
official answer?" An official then disclosed that all four boxes were in the
FBI’s possession. Lindorff summarized the great trick played on us.
"Investigators found fingernail-sized shards of bone to identify the
victims, yet we’re to believe that all four black boxes are still missing?"
[The
four six-ton engines from flights 11 and 175 also vanished, according to the
government.—Ed.]
Mike Bellone, who worked at Ground Zero for 257 straight
days, actually saw one of the recovered boxes three to four weeks after the WTC
collapses, and personally witnessed the FBI loading this equipment onto a
tractor-trailer. He also referred to New York City firefighter Nicholas Demasi,
who claims to have been present when "locaters" found two other boxes. Why
hasn’t the public been made aware of these groundbreaking developments? Ventura
stated pointblank, "Government officials knowingly destroyed all the evidence
at
that crime scene. They got rid of every shred of evidence. They melted it down,
built ships out of it, or put it on a boat to China."
What little else
remains is stored at the mysterious Hanger 17 at New York’s JFK Airport.
Absolutely no one is allowed access to this evidence.
VIOLENCE & OPPRESSION -- THEN AND NOW!
James C.
Dick
HISTORY -- 1979
The Battle at
Homestead
[pps. 38-39]
No
nation has had a more violent labor history than the United States."
Undoubtedly, the bloodiest years in all this history of violence were those
from
1877 to 1919. The major violent strikes of these years include the 1877
railroad
strike, the 1892 strikes at Homestead and at Coeur d'Alene, the 1894 Pullman
strike, the Colorado labor war of 1913-14, and the 1919 steel strike. During at
least two of these strikes the strikers, and not their opponents, caused a
significant number of casualties for which a plausible justification can be
advanced. These were the strikes at the Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill, a
part of the Carnegie empire, and the strike in the coal field of southern
Colorado. I consider each of these strikes in some detail, first the one at
Homestead and then the Colorado strike.
In
1892 Homestead was a town of 11,000 located on the Monongahela River seven
miles
east of and upriver from Pittsburgh. (The present-day Homestead lies just at
the
edge of the city of Pittsburgh.) Virtually every man in Homestead worked at the
steel mill, which stretched along a mile of waterfront. Boiler plates, beams,
girders, armor plate, and some billets (slabs) were manufactured here, where
3800 of Carnegie Steel Company's 13,000 iron and steel workers were
employed. Andrew Carnegie owned
over half of the company (formed in July 1892), but Henry Clay Frick, its
chairman, was the manager directly in charge. Although Carnegie was in Scotland
during the strike, it was he who made the decision to break the union.
The
union was the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers with a national
membership of 25,000. In 1892 at Homestead and at other mills, "local lodges
were strong enough to determine employment and discharge policies, and even to
press grievance cases of little substance." Only 400 of the workers at
Homestead
belonged to the union, though a last-minute membership drive brought membership
up to 750 by June. The union's strength lay with highly skilled workers, and in
practice it discriminated against the unskilled, the foreign-born, and blacks."
The union was conservative, devoted to maintaining existing large wage
differences and, to keep total pay high, it often opposed reductions in the
length of the work day and abandonment of the seven-day week."
The
1892 strike came about ostensibly as a result of disagreement over three
issues:
(1) a reduction in the minimum price of the steel billets by which worker wages
were determined, (2) a change in the expiration date of the contract from June
20 to December 31, and (3) a reduction in the tonnage rates at a slabbing mill,
a plate mill, and the open-hearth furnaces." The difference over the first
issue
was easily narrowed to one dollar from the initial three, and could just as
easily have been settled. A summer expiration date had been in force for
fourteen years. The union regarded a summer date as essential, since the
workers
could not stay out on strike during the winter for long, but the company wanted
its labor contracts to terminate on the same date as did contracts with
customers. The company thought that the new tonnage rates were justified by the
installation of expensive machinery that had greatly increased output and thus
the men's earnings. The union representatives held that the men had suggested
many of the improvements, that the new machinery required greater concentration
and exertion, and that they were entitled to a share of the benefits of
increased productivity, especially since it resulted in technological
unemployment.
KAH,
December 29, 2009
1877 railroad strike,
1892 strikes at Homestead and at Coeur
d'Alene,
1894 Pullman strike,
1913-14 the Colorado labor war,
1919 the steel strike.
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