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Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”
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Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it. Sigh.
From @grist: "With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor."
#Ocean #Mining #Environment #Science #ClimateChange #FossilFuels