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May 24, 2021 Harper’s Weekly/D. BendannRail strikers blockade engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1877. Karl Marx called their strike “the first uprising against the oligarchy of capital which had developed since the Civil War.” The working class together with oppressed toilers who are Black and exploited farmers would be the class forces of revolution in the U.S., he said. The “Great Strike” of 1877, sparked by starvation wages and brutal working conditions, started among rail workers and then drew in more than half a million others. It alarmed the capitalist rulers. Federal, state and city governments unleashed troops, cops and gangs of thugs on strikers, cheered on by the bosses’ press. Karl Marx wrote that this mighty class battle “could very well be the point of origin for the creation of a serious workers’ party.” The excerpt below is from “The Railroad Uprisings of 1877,” in American Labor Struggles 1877-1934 ....
Wells Fargo fails to shake 401(k) suit The development likely gives the plaintiffs more leverage for a settlement, as the class-action case has moved one step closer to a trial. May 14, 2021 4 MINS A lawsuit against Wells Fargo over the use of its own investment products in the company’s $40 billion 401(k) plan this week cleared a major hurdle. On Wednesday a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the case, finding that the plaintiffs’ “allegations are far more than general assertions, and that accepted as true, show that [the] defendants engaged in prohibited transactions.” The development likely gives the plaintiffs more leverage for a settlement, as the class-action case has moved one step closer to a trial. ....
Meet John Wilkinson, a ‘man of uncommon vision,’ who brought the railroad to Syracuse Posted Apr 28, 2021 A 1920 photograph of the reproduction the DeWiit Clinton. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori Facebook Share By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association One Hundred Eighty-Six Years Ago: In the spring of 1834, Syracuse was one of many small, but growing villages that had sprung up along the Erie Canal since the completion of the first section in 1820. The engineering marvel of its day, the Erie Canal drastically reduced the costs and time associated with transporting everything from goods, to people and ideas, and turned New York into the Empire State. At the same time, a new technology, the railroad, was emerging that ultimately displaced the canal after years of stout competition. ....
Board to vote on jail suicide case settlement By: Alex Szwarc | C&G Newspapers | Published April 15, 2021 Advertisement MACOMB COUNTY After emerging from closed session, a case involving a death at the Macomb County Jail is closer to being settled. At the April 7 Macomb County Board of Commissioners Government Oversight Committee meeting, the commission unanimously approved a motion involving a settlement. The item will now be forwarded to full board, where a final vote will happen April 29. The settlement would be for up to $150,000 in a case that centers around a 2017 suicide in the Macomb County Jail. The commission was in close session for about 50 minutes. ....
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