A former pit village is marking the 100th anniversary of a #miners' lockout.
Pit bosses closed #ChopwellColliery in #Gateshead after employees refused to accept less pay & worse conditions, with the dispute lasting 17 months.
Support for the miners came from around the world, including Russia, which led to the village being nicknamed "Little Moscow"
The centenary is being celebrated by community events, including a podcast and and digital film made by local young people.
I really liked today's #onthisday in #workingclasshistory
https://lemmy.world/post/33035363
## Ida B. Wells (1862 - 1931) ### Wed Jul 16, 1862 Image [https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/idaBWells.jpg] Image: Ida B. Wells Barnett, in a photograph by Mary Garrity from c. 1893 [Wikipedia] — Ida B. Wells, born on this day in 1862, was a radical journalist and civil rights activist. “If labor is withdrawn capital will not remain…The white man’s dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.” Born into slavery on July 16th, 1862, Wells was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. After moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells began working as a teacher and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, which she also co-owned. Her reporting covered incidents of racial injustice. In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in her works “Horrors” and “The Red Record”. Her documentation undermined the white supremacist claim that lynching was something only done to criminals, and her analysis exposed lynching as a means of killing and intimidating black people whose competition was threatening white power. Wells’ work was carried nationally in black-owned newspapers, gaining prominence and earning the ire of white supremacists. On May 21st, 1892, Wells published an editorial in the Free Speech refuting what she called “that old threadbare lie that Negro men rape White women. If Southern men are not careful, a conclusion might be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.” Following this statement, Wells was denounced as a “Black scoundrel” in the press and an angry white mob burned down the Free Speech offices while she was out of town. A group of local white businessmen located Rev. Nightingale, the founder of the Free Speech, assaulted him and forced him at gunpoint to sign a letter retracting Wells’ editorial. Wells never returned to Memphis. Wells was also active in the women’s suffrage movement, however her unrelenting advocacy for racial justice clashed with contemporary, predominantly white suffrage organizations. In 1893, Wells and Frances Willard, President of the white Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), were traveling separately to Britain on lecture tours. Wells publicly criticized Willard for remaining silent on the issue of lynching and blaming black people for a lack of success with her reform campaign in the American South. In 1909, Wells co-founded The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) along with figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington. In the late 1920s, Wells began writing her autobiography but didn’t finish the book before dying of kidney failure in 1931 at age 68. The text was posthumously edited and published by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster as “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells.” > “If labor is withdrawn capital will not remain. The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. The white man’s dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.” > > - Ida B. Wells — - Date: 1862-07-16 - Learn More: en.wikipedia.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur], www.blackpast.org [https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/assata-olugbala-shakur-1947/]. - Tags: #Labor [/search?q=%23Labor&type=Posts&listingType=All&page=1&sort=New], #Birthdays [/search?q=%23Birthdays&type=Posts&listingType=All&page=1&sort=New]. - Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org [https://www.apeoplescalendar.org/calendar/events/ida-b-wells-1862-1931]
Radical Tradition
http://www.takver.com/history/
“War on the Wharfies” 1998
http://www.takver.com/wharfie/
Anti-Militarism 2003
http://www.takver.com/history/melb/peace2003/index.htm
Gay Pride 1973
http://www.takver.com/history/sydney/gay_pride1973.htm
Climate Action MerriBek
https://climateactionmerribek.org/
Sustainable Fawkner
https://fawkner.org/
Anti-Nuclear Bicycle rides
http://www.takver.com/history/cycle_antiuranium.htm
Reading
The Popular Wobbly
Selected Writings of
T-Bone Slim
Edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre
Foreword by David R. Roediger
2025 University of Minnesota Press
Pbk ISBN 978-1-5179-1496-7
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/10/twentieth-century-rebel-woman/
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/longshore-workers-remember-struggle-free-charleston-five
#Charleston #dockworkers #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory
Dockworkers from around the world reunited in South Carolina for a week in June to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the successful campaign to “Free the Charleston 5” and the founding of the International Dockworkers Council. For nearly two years, five members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) faced felony rioting charges and prison sentences stemming from their roles in a January 2000 confrontation with police at the entrance to the Columbus Street Terminal in Charleston.
More than 880,000 workers get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases
Nationally, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour - since 2009.
https://www.adp.com/-/media/adp/resourcehub/pdf/minimum-wage-increases-chart.pdf
A full-time worker in every U.S. county needs $17+ an hour to afford basic expenses such as housing, food, transportation and health care,
21 States raise MW
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/these-21-states-raised-their-minimum-wage-on-jan-1.html
History
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history
“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.” (2.0.) - Shirley Bassey
Estimates of how many were repatriated, deported, or expelled range (1929-1939) from 300,000 to 2 million (of which 40–60% were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children).
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