{"id":7880,"date":"2012-08-31T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2012-09-01T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T21:08:28","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-the-real-labor-day-is-mayday-but-happy-happy-merry-merry-class-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-the-real-labor-day-is-mayday-but-happy-happy-merry-merry-class-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: The Real Labor Day is Mayday, but Happy Happy Merry Merry Class War!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“The Most Heroic Word in All Languages is Revolution,” Eugene Debs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vVYwJqGmhJQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Where does the Counterfeit US “Labor Day” Come From? <\/strong>President Grover Cleveland, citing the now delayed mail system, declared the strike illegal and sent 12,000 troops to break it. Two men were killed in the violence that erupted near Chicago. Debs was sent to prison, and the ARU was disbanded, and Pullman employees henceforth were required to sign a pledge that they would never again unionize.
\nSensing the political unease caused by his anti-labor stance during the Pullman strike, President Cleveland put reconciliation with labor forces at the top of his to-do list. Labor Day legislation was rushed through Congress and passed unanimously on June 28, 1894, just six days after the end of the Pullman strike. \u00a0http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/how-to\/content\/labor-day-and-the-pullman-strike-of-1894.html<\/p>\n

CTU Votes To Strike on Sept 10 <\/strong> The largest meeting of the Chicago Teachers Union of the 21st Century (and perhaps in history) voted unanimously on August 30, 2012, to strike Chicago’s public schools unless an acceptable contract is reached during the current negotiations by September 10, 2012. The vote to strike was taken on a motion from the union’s Executive Board during the huge meeting, which took place at the Operating Engineers union hall on Chicago’s South Side after school on August 30. \u00a0http:\/\/www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=3547&section=Article<\/p>\n

South Africa’s Miners Continue to Resist Murderous Sellout ANC and the Mandellaites <\/strong>“Preliminary figures are 13 per cent average attendance across all shafts this morning,” said Lonmin in a statement on Monday. \u00a0..Strikers gathered on Monday in an open space, just metres from where police shot dead 34 of their colleagues on August 16. Earlier strike violence in the area had claimed the lives of 10 other people, including two policemen.
\nPolice in armoured trucks kept a close watch over the crowd, as tensions and fears remained high following the deadly unrest.
\n“There have been incidents of intimidation towards bus drivers overnight as well as intimidation of… workers this morning, preventing them from coming to work,” Lonmin said, after a high of 57 per cent of workers reported for duty at the weekend.
\n“We are aware that some people have gone back to work, we have noted that behaviour, and we need to come up with a plan to deal with them,” Alfonso Mofokeng, a miner from Lesotho told AFP news agency.
\n“By going to work they are say[ing] the murder that happened here was in vain, and they are fine with it,” he said.
\nSouth Africa’s police watchdog on Monday was probing complaints that officers had beaten and injured platinum workers arrested after the police shooting….Autopsy reports on most of dead meanwhile showed they had been shot from behind<\/em>, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
\n“The post-mortem reports indicate that most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed,” an unnamed source involved in the investigation told The Star newspaper.
\n“A lot of them were shot in the back and the bullets exited through their chests,” said the source, adding only a few were found to have been shot from the front.
\nOperations at the Marikana mine, the world’s third-largest platinum producer, ground to a halt on August 10 when 3,000 rock drill operators started a vigil on a hill, demanding a pay rise. \u00a0http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2012\/08\/2012827152126793864.html<\/p>\n