On this day in 1912, a riot broke out in Grabow, Louisiana when gunfire was exchanged between organizing lumber workers and private gunmen hired by the Galloway Lumber Company, just one event in the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War. The clash left three union workers and one company gunman dead, wounding an estimated fifty more.
The event took place in the context of workers in the sawmill town of Grabow joining the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (shown), a branch of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union (LWIU), itself affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
On July 7th, 1912, the union workers held a series of rallies at several different company towns, including Bon Ami and Carson, alongside Grabow.
The group that went to Grabow, around 200 people, spontaneously decided to hold a rally with several speeches - labor leader Arthur L. Emerson spoke on top of a wagon to roughly 25 non-union men, plus the additional union men who had come with him.
Shots began between these workers and a group of four others, including Galloway Lumber owner John Galloway, in the local mill office, all of whom had later been found to be drinking before the incident. It is not known for certain which group fired first. Three union men were killed alongside one member of the private company security force. Approximately 50 more were wounded.
Over the next few days, more than more than 60 workers were taken into custody by police. Although the mill owner himself was arrested, he was released without charges soon afterward. Sixty-five of the timber workers' group were brought up on charges ranging from inciting a riot to murder.
The IWW worked to aid the incarcerated workers, with "Big Bill" Haywood fundraising for their legal fund. The trial lasted until November 8th, and its jury returned a not guilty verdict for all of the union men. All of those arrested were set free.
Although they had limited success in Louisiana, the LWIU successfully organized later, winning an eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest after a 1917 strike. Today, there is a historical marker at the site of the riot, located on what is now the property of DeRidder Airport, Louisiana.
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Where do I get the energy to change my life. I need to like lose twenty pounds, become more socially active and either finish my useless masters degree and then start some apprenticeship in a job that's not soul crushingly terrible on the face of it or just do that without finishing my masters
There is no point in waiting for motivation or energy, that day might never come. Every time you begin to climb out of a rut is gonna be hard, so you might as well just force yourself and push through those first few weeks.
My advice is to install a free Couch to 5k running app and just follow the program. It's a running program that very gradually trains you from zero to be able to run for 5 kilometers. It's gonna give you the structure and dopamine required to tackle all other goals. You are already existing in this dogshit world, which is hard. This means that you can do hard things.
this is exactly the kind of bootstraps bullshit i was talking about in the c/den meta.
You left out the rest of my sentence though. Most of the time, you should listen to your body and treat yourself with self-compassion. But if you're starting from zero, everything is gonna feel like shit for the first few weeks until you get the hang of it.
and you just keep yanking those bootstraps to get through that period
What's the alternative though? We know that systemic issues can only be resolved by systemic solutions but those aren't coming any time soon. If your only remaining choice is to either push through for 2 weeks or give up at the first sign of discomfort, then it's obvious which one I would choose. What is your advice for the comrade who asked the question?
Depending on your financial situation you might be able to solve the first two things with one of those modern weight loss drugs, a bunch of my family are on them and they say they give them a ton of energy.
Exercise releases endorphins which make you feel less like shit. Find a bodyweight home fitness thing appropriate for your current fitness (home calisthenics, kettlebell, jogging, idc). After 2 months of that, your mental health should be +1 or +2, use those points to power you through the next thing you need.
Find the things you do in life that aren't helpful in achieving your goals and substitute different behaviors for those.
i did organized sports from age 5 to 19 as well as some recreational cycling and martial arts over the years since then and i never got that post-workout positive shit from the exercise.
Exercise is for when you can take on the additional burden, and every study i've ever seen about depression and exercise puts the cart 20 kilometers in front of the horse.