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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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Ooooh Earth rider, thanks for the Great Lakes!

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Really really feeling like everyone will be worse off this time next year, then worse the year after, and so on

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Amazing that the "the normies hates idpol!!!!" democrats is now using every pointless "idpol" smear against zohran.

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Link doesn't redirect for me for some reason:

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Is my hatred of AI voice videos irrational and unwarranted?

Hearing the same one or two voices is fucking grating to my ears. The flow and tone always seems off and I fucking hate it. Yet a number of people I know constantly watch AI voiced videos.

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They do sound terrible and its most likely because its built into tiktok and social media apps all repost content to each other (attribution or not).

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no, they sound like absolute shit garbage

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Hearing a lot of rumors that you've been "banished to the lagoon"

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been Uber/Lyft ing for like four hours and only made like forty dollars never ever trying to make money at this time of day again this sucks

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Just curious, has anybody played Bendy and the Ink Machine? I'm probably gonna pick it up because it looks neat, was wondering if others enjoyed it

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Let's see what other trouble unmedicated Leyla gets herself into this week

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boutta immanetize the eschaton in this mf

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Wot if you demonetized the sabaton by mistake?

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people keep saying, oooh 90% supporters of genocide in western world is not true, but look at this shit, these are radlibs, not fucking cdu sieg heiling idiots

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