…t the “real” Americans — the white working and middle class would have learned something from that. From the system that once exploited only blacks turning on them, at last, too. That they might have said: “Hey, you know what? Exploitation, we’ve learned, backfires. Let’s build a decent society.”

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The Ludlow Massacre and other lessons from labor history

Georgia NeSmith

1 min readApr 23, 2020

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