Today In Labor History April 3, 1913: Pietro Botto, socialist mayor of Haledon, N.J., invited the Paterson silk mill strikers to assemble in front of his house. 20,000 showed up to hear speakers from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Upton Sinclair, John Reed and others, who urged them to remain strong in their fight. The Patterson strike lasted from Feb. 1 until July 28, 1913. Workers were fighting for the eight-hour workday and better working conditions. Over 1800 workers were arrested during the strike, including IWW leaders Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Five were killed. Overall, the strike was poorly organized and confined to Paterson. The IWW, the main organizer of the strike, eventually gave up.

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Today in Labor History January 4, 1883: Radical writer and publisher Max Eastman was born. In the 1910s, he edited “The Masses,” one of America's leading socialist periodicals. Contributors included Sherwood Anderson, Amy Lowell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, John Reed, Carl Sandburg and Upton Sinclair. During this period, he advocated for free love and birth control. In 1917, he co-founded “The Liberator” with his sister Crystal Eastman. In that periodical, he published Hellen Keller, John Dos Passos, Hemingway and Cummings. The U.S. government indicted him twice under the Sedition Act. Both times his lawyers got him acquitted. In 1917, he raised money for John Reed, who was in Russia, reporting on the Bolshevik Revolution. He published Reed's articles from Russia, later collected as “Ten Days That Shook the World.” In the early 1920s, Eastman lived in the Soviet Union. He witnessed Stalin’s Great Purge and became highly critical of Stalinism, and then of communism and socialism in general. He moved back to the U.S. and became a staunch anti-communist and an advocate of free market capitalism.

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Il #3dicembre 1981 usciva nelle sale americane Reds il film di Warren Beatty dedicato alla figura del giornalista comunista John Reed. https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/reds-john-reed-e-i-comunisti-americani/

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Reds. John Reed e i comunisti americani

Gli Stati Uniti quando hanno la possibilità di finanziare golpe militari o di intervenire per soffocare giovani rivoluzioni sono sempre in prima fila. Ci provarono anche durante la Guerra civile russ...

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104 anni fa moriva #JohnReed. La vita del giornalista #comunista, unico americano ad essere sepolto nel #Cremlino, fu portata sul grande schermo da #WarrenBeatty in #Reds https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/reds-john-reed-e-i.../

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Reds. John Reed e i comunisti americani

Gli Stati Uniti quando hanno la possibilità di finanziare golpe militari o di intervenire per soffocare giovani rivoluzioni sono sempre in prima fila. Ci provarono anche durante la Guerra civile russ...

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Today in Labor History September 28, 1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. The players were acquitted by the jury, but they were still banned for life from professional baseball by Major League Baseball’s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, thus ruining their careers. Yet New York gangster, Arnold Rothstein, who orchestrated the Black Sox scandal, was never punished. The biggest loser in the Black Sox case was probably Shoeless Joe Jackson. Had he not been banned for life, he might have gone on to become one of the greatest hitters of all time, possibly even better than Ty Cobb. Jackson hit .408 in 1911, his rookie year. Babe Ruth said he modeled his batting style after Jackson. Landis, like Cobb, was a virulent racist, but with the power to actively upheld the league’s ban on black players.

Landis was also famous for fining Standard Oil $29 million (that would be nearly $1 billion in today’s dollars). John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard Oil, said Landis would be dead long before he paid the fine. He was right. A court of appeals reversed the fine in 1908. Landis was also infamous for persecuting leftists and labor leaders (mostly foreign-born socialists, anarchists and Wobblies), including Big Bill Haywood, of the IWW, for resisting World War One. Landis referred to the leftist defendants as "scum," "filth," and "slimy rats." Haywood received a 20-year sentence, jumped bail, and fled to the Soviet Union, where he remained until his death. He is one of two Americans buried in the Kremlin wall, along with communist journalist John Reed. Haywood kept a portrait of Landis on his apartment wall, in Moscow, quite likely so he could spit on it each day. Reed, who covered the war resisters’ trial, wrote the following about Landis:

“Small on the huge bench sits a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth; the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead ... Upon this man has devolved the historic role of trying the Social Revolution. He is doing it like a gentleman. In many ways a most unusual trial. When the judge enters the court-room after recess, no one rises—he himself has abolished the pompous formality. He sits without robes, in an ordinary business suit, and often leaves the bench to come down and perch on the step of the jury box. By his personal orders, spittoons are placed by the prisoners' seats ... and as for the prisoners themselves, they are permitted to take off their coats, move around, read newspapers. It takes some human understanding for a Judge to fly in the face of judicial ritual as much as that.”

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https://biblioteca.org.ar/libros/142524.pdf Un libro muy recomendable las crónicas de #Johnreed en el nos explica no solo como funcionan los #partidosburgueses ante la #Insurreccionproletaria y como se alían todos los defensores del kapital.
#johnreed era periodista y Marxista-leninista actualmente estoy leyendo sus #cronicas de los #momentoshistóricos que contó para la #claseobrera . Actualmente, lo que conocemos por #periodismo hasta en ambiente #progre son unos chupatintas a favor del kapital. Ninguna noticia es a favor de la clase y menos se atreven a perder su cómodidad en los estados burgueses, cosa que antes fue un hecho. Hablan de #racismo o #machismo en ninguna noticia veo que señalan #cuestiondeclase.

Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other American were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.

John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.

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