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<blockquote data-quote="Inthegame" data-source="post: 968225" data-attributes="member: 37112"><p>Anarchists? You complain that fascists are allowed to frame the debate yet you use the same terms those fascists used when 1886 happened. They weren't anarchists, they were families fighting for rights and time away from the oppressive control of forced long hours without any additional pay ,ie OT. "<em>8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest and 8 hours for what we will" </em>wasn't the cry of anarchists. Haymarket wasn't an isolated incident. In some cities, Milwaukee for example, the city council passed laws requiring business to implement 8 hour days merely to be ignored by the business community. When thousands of citizens peacefully protested, the real anarchists, the state militia, did what military units usually do, come to the aid of poor, oppressed capital and opened fire on unarmed citizens killing seven. Now the folks with union contracts and a grievance procedure won't take the time to lift a pen. It's a cold world alright. </p><p>We went on strike in '97 to get full time jobs, and to keep UPS away from the pension because we had a leader with stones and a brain. Now we have neither but don't beat your chest cause you took a walk in the street without a permit. You weren't getting shot at pal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Inthegame, post: 968225, member: 37112"] Anarchists? You complain that fascists are allowed to frame the debate yet you use the same terms those fascists used when 1886 happened. They weren't anarchists, they were families fighting for rights and time away from the oppressive control of forced long hours without any additional pay ,ie OT. "[I]8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest and 8 hours for what we will" [/I]wasn't the cry of anarchists. Haymarket wasn't an isolated incident. In some cities, Milwaukee for example, the city council passed laws requiring business to implement 8 hour days merely to be ignored by the business community. When thousands of citizens peacefully protested, the real anarchists, the state militia, did what military units usually do, come to the aid of poor, oppressed capital and opened fire on unarmed citizens killing seven. Now the folks with union contracts and a grievance procedure won't take the time to lift a pen. It's a cold world alright. We went on strike in '97 to get full time jobs, and to keep UPS away from the pension because we had a leader with stones and a brain. Now we have neither but don't beat your chest cause you took a walk in the street without a permit. You weren't getting shot at pal. [/QUOTE]
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