@@AndrewDelConte How in the Great Depression, WWI American veterans bonuses weren't payed but instead they were given "service bonus certificates" that can't be cashed out until 1945. See the Bonus Army for more info. OR maybe the general attitude of the Veterans' Affair to the Vets
@Tryandstopme ࿕ Americans need to stop glorifying the military. You shouldn´t have to risk bodily or mental harm to provide for yourself and your family.
@@victorkreig6089 oh yes nothing like saying "here mister boss man, take more of my paycheck, please keep underpaying me and all other people in the work place" You are a weakling who has never had to work in a team, a loser.
@@pieterwillembotha6719 No, the Harlan County War was 31. Blair was in 21. I made a bit of a mistake, thinking that the song was based off of a stanza another Pro-Unionist had said. Thinking it was Mother Jones since she was ALL OVER Appalachia. But from what I know, some boys from West Virginia moved to Kentucky to support the union is Harlan since Blair Mountain had made an impact to small Unionist Organizations. TLDR: Not the same war, sorta related. Made a mistake of quoting from another.
Reminder that not only did the mine owners murder the sheriff in broad daylight for trying to prevent them from evicting miners from their homes, then machine gun workers for striking, the US government flew bombers overhead and dropped mustard gas on the miners when they fought back, then tried to prosecute them in court. If not for one of the miners presenting a dud round as evidence in court that the government had used chemical weapons on their own people, they'd have been found guilty. And then the Bonus Marchers got massacred.
@@arandomcommenter412 battle of Blair mountain- 1921. That all lead up to a 3 day long trench battle with armored trains, nerve gas air raids, and machine gun emplacements.
Survives German mustard gas Gets killed by his own government with mustard gas Gets sent to court for dying on company time Refuses to elaborate Chad miners
The boys out east still talk about that day, wasn't expecting a piece of history from my state. Edit: The rifle sounds and reminds me of a Springfield 1903
@@OperatorJackYT Most the WW1 vets from around when this happened were issued 1903's in the war though it wouldn't be unusual at all to see some Krags in the mix.
As a Kentuckian, it never fails to sadden me that so many aren't familiar with such aspects of our history, and Appalachian history in general. Most are more than willing to defend the predatory business interests that have plagued this land for generations, even those who are quite visibly their prey. It's not even a partisan issue here. Everyone just endorses and perpetuates this oppression on both sides of the aisle. Absolutely disgraceful.
I just had someone tell me that labor unions are for lazy entitled people and that if you do your job you shouldn't be afraid of your Boss. I think I know which side he was on
Company: You’re fired for unionizing. These men are going to escort you out of your company owned home. Ww1 veteran miner: (Loads 03 Springfield with malicious intent.)
“Deputy Jim Daniels jumped out and hid behind a rock. Daniels was one of the most hated anti-union deputies in the county. Daniels raised his head to fire at the miners, but as soon as he did so, he was fatally shot and killed” Owned lol
He should’ve kept his head down. If you’re in the general area that bullets are being fired at, trying to return fire is a bad idea. The second he moved behind the rock too, several of those guns were going to be following him and waiting like a hunter stalking a rabbit. If there were WWI vets among the miners, they definitely would’ve known the stupidity of doing what he did because of the trench warfare in Europe.
the bourgeois have spent decades convincing the people of the world that their oppression is whats best for them. i hope that with the clear failures of capitalism becoming more and more present, this will change
As a transplant to Appalachia, I wish labor here did better. Yall deserve so much more for how hard you work. 12 hours a day, in the factories, in the fields, in the mines, in facilities, on the roads, 5 or even 6 days a week, any weather, no whining, no complaining, just getting it done. Yallve earned better than the worst conditions in the country. Let's not go to work for a week and see how they get by without us.
Which Side Are You On is such a powerful song. A strike leaders wife, Florence Reece, wrote it after the corrupt sheriff and his deputies forced their way into her house searching for her husband Samuel. Samuel escaped, but the deputies threatened her and their children. After they left, Florence wrote the lyrics on their kitchen calendar, and used the tune from an old Baptist hymn.
@@loomhigh In our country Czechia in 1920s and 30s there were massive strikes and some fights with cops. People dont have access to weapons but workers throwing stuff and especially big screws. It was one of few moments of history when Germans and Czechs stands together against goverment.
@@Komotau4691 It’s a good thing us Americans have the 2nd amendment so we can protect our rights against corruption with arms. Like the men at Mount Blaire.
I appreciate there being no advertisements at either end of this. If the grim fade-out transitioned into a company loudly trying to sell me something, it would have been a sour irony that I couldn't stand.
@@mortagagedfreemen323Precisely why we need to form unions underground instead of joining an older one. If the official unions are corrupt, then the unofficial ones are preferable. The official unions have been neutered and made into pawns.
@@mortagagedfreemen323 BS Corporations spend billions fighting Unions, that's such a dumb take. Unions, even in their current state, are good and should be supported by every worker. Reminder that police unions aren't real unions, they are union busters and should be dissolved.
Should have a link to an article talking about the warrior met coal miner's strike down here in alabama, as well as the kellog's one. 100 years after blair mountain and we're still doing this.
I’ll try to learn more about this. I really am glad the internet allows people like me to find info about stuff like that, or else I might still think the south and Appalachia was just all far right like most libs.
@@aofdoom5030 Plenty of guys around here belong to a labor union, thing is most of them are socially conservative and very blue-collar so they don't exactly identify with the "left", and to be honest I don't really blame them. I think if libs (or leftists idk) wanted to make gains with these people in the future they'd be wise to consider their sensibilities.
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr It's because leftists in America have never been the brightest bunch, in either ability or even doctrine. It never really dawned on them why there are so few truly left wing nations left.
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr Fuck labels. There's shitheads in every direction. You don't need buzzwords to realize that corporate pigs will always be thieving bastards.
in a way, I'm sad that labour conflicts don't work like this anymore. Boses are a lot more compliant when they have the threat of assassination hanging over their heads.
With the widening of the middle class comes a reduction in class consciousness. The advent of the middle class directly lead to Armed Unionizing becoming nearly extinct, especially in the US.
@@BASEDKAISER Or just get that leverage by forming unions. I dont care for the idea of being screwed by the corporate, with the only option on the table being quitting your job and hope the next one isnt as bad.
I am glad that such stories are coming to light in Australia, but it would also be fascinating to see America's because it seems to be so much less of a success story and far more dramatic. One of the only advanced capitalist countries not to form a labor-based party that plays a major role in American elections, and certainly among the most violently oppressed.
@@loomhigh much less of a success story is the understatement of the century lol. the idea that there even was once a moderately plausible socialist party of america candidate for president (Eugene Debbs, etc.) is mind boggling if you were to just look at the political state of the country today.
It’s been 100 years since the battle of Blair mountain, remember never trust or like big corporations, see how than and now how they treat the working man
Rural workers in 1931: Sends his retort to bad pay and dangerous working conditions back to the company man at muzzle velocity Rural workers in 2021: Step on me harder CEO sempai.
@@deathkorpstrooper8228 I’m telling you these good ol boys and rancheros are getting tired of being shafted by boss men, we’ll either make a Co-Op or force a lean. No one works until wages are raised, like a strike. Boss tries and force us out? Boss ends up bleeding
I don't think you actually live in a rural community if you unironically believe we're that passive. No one loses their shit over bad pay or shitty hours quite like an overworked country yokel lol
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr my experience is it depends on the age. Boomers will absolutely let the boss abuse them and they think it's some kind of virtue to get stomped on. An actual left could win easily right now but the left we have is ran by rich college kids basing their politics on their own personal problems, elitism and white guilt.
My hometown was big on the union . . . to this day, Labor Day is the most celebrated holiday. I remember management would always ensure that contracts came up in December or January so that if workers went on strike, they'd have to strike in the cold. I distinctly remember one such strike in December of 1979 in northern Michigan when I was a child. We (my mother, brother, and I), "crossed the picket line" and the striking workers started yelling at her, calling her a "scab." "I'm not a scab," my Mom said. "We just live over this way." We happened to live a half a block away from the shipyard.
I edited it because i realized i had a stroke typing it lol, I apparently put "Fortunate Son" but you're waiting on the waiting on the evac helicopters.
I love that the algorithm is presenting these videos now. There couldn't be a better time. We might be facing a similar situation all over the US soon.
@@jacobpederson6628 I don't either. Except my local sheriff. In my area they're all locally elected, easily reachable and mine atleast has fought against state, municipal and federal overeach in the courts multiple times.
@@mrsmith2876 I used to live in a small town with a sheriff like that. He's long retired now unfortunately. Im happy there are still some good ones out there
The Baldwin-Felts and Pinkerton guys still got shot down in the streets of Harlan. Same with the guys in the Barbed Wire Wars and the Range Wars. If the locals are pissed enough, the corporats will enter alive and there they will remain, permanently.
The national guard actually never fired on the miners, since most of them were ww1 vets. The mining companies militia was the one the fought the miners
Bosses really need to face this again, things got done. Every so often your Blairs and Morgans and Rockefellers need to feel the cold fear of "How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?"
My great grandmother as a child wore her mother's bloomers and snuck onto the coal train and stuffed the bloomers full of coal. Her little sister who had scarlet fever at the time would distract guards by holding up a conversation, and as a last-ditch effort would take off her cap and expose her bald head to shock them. A wholesome heist all around.
Funny how this popped back in my recommendations after the rail strike decisions. Best of luck from ireland lads, let's hope history doesn't have to repeat itself.
Looks at the state of work and living conditions today : *sigh* "How many times are we gonna have to teach you this lesson porky ?" *grabs banjo and red handkerchief*
@@alejandrochalco6893 Gotta wait a little longer for the AI automatization crysis to kick in to high gear. Then we won't have to worry about anything creating more jobs.
Truth is, workers never had anything to lose (but their chains) B) It's the boss and the landlord that have things they could lose. Worker families and single workers stick together. They can get employment and housing again. The boss has their one lifeboat and we don't, we swim from one to the next (until we get kicked out/leave of our own will again.
I do like how occasionally, the sound effect of the bolt being worked takes a moment to complete. Best heard at 0:24. Anyone who's shot a older bolt gun knows occasionally the bolt gets caught when opening or closing and it takes a second to adjust your hand to finish the cycle. Not to mention the sound of reloading being added instead of just constant firing and cycling. Honestly one of the best "(Song name) but XXX" videos out there.
Workers: "we demand better pay and treatment at work!" Mining company, the State & Federal government: *"COMMUNISTS DETECTED ON AMERICAN SOIL, LETHAL FORCE ENGAGED"*
Had to come back to this after going over the events leading up to and following the Battle of Blair Mountain again. The coal miners were and are still looked down upon. May God bless them
I've been to the monument for the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado. Pretty depressing how poorly these miners were treated and how this major piece of American history isn't really talked about much.
Well considering the government then and now wants to keep up this facade of “land of the free” it’s not to surprising to see it covered up along with other historic things occurring during that time the focus also shifts to those as well taking away from things like this which eventually to all but a few fade away
West 'By God' Virginia always has your back, Kentucky. May the bourbon flow and bluegrass grow while we fight for life and pride in Appalachia during these troubling times. May we never forget those who came before us and fought for what was right. From Mingo, to Harlan, to Asheville, to Uniontown, we are all in this together. Stay strong, boys. May God bless you and watch over you along your way. Support the hospital strike in Huntington.
The accuracy is astonishing. In the actual battle a single shot was fired first debated by which side, after that the leading car stopped and the deputy acompanying it jumped out behind a roadside rock, and when he reemerged to shoot a miner got shot and died. I counted roughly 50+ shots during one minute, which is also very spot on, because the actual battle lasted for 15 minutes and circa a thousand shots were fired.
Greetings from Russia! Heard from IWW that now you guys are facing a lot of struggle and wish you good luck. If American workers win then it will have an impact all over the world. Unfortunately, in my country, people are only starting to realize their class interests
@@dreamwalker4884 I would be honoured, my friend, but contrary to the stereotypes, automatic weaponry is very hard to access in our country (unless it is Nortern Caucasus, guys there are keeping some good stuff). I guess the ARs will perform not worse in using your Second Amendment the way it was intended for
@@f-man3274 my friend, the second ammendment has been gutted by politicians to make sure we can't ever truly resist. As you mentioned, don't believe the stereotypes. As much as the right wing in this country hypes it up, in the end it's nothing but an illusion they use to keep us docile.
@@f-man3274 ahh damn. That's horrible D: Maybe your government can send us lend lease like our predecessors did during WWII. Also the Soviet Union was a good thing and it's horrible that it was destroyed. D:
I was born and raised in Harlan Co, Cawood to be specific. My dad was a miner in Harlan Co. and my mom grew up a miner's daughter in a coal camp with scrip as the only real currency. This song is part of my family and my heritage.
It's a damn shame that the Gadsden Flag has been co-opted by lousy scabs. It's got so much weight behind it as a symbol. Keep that flame burning, freedom fighter.
@@accounteliminato3885 Dude, it was the Gadsden Flag way before it became associated with Libertarianism. It was one of the main symbols of the Revolution, so it's obviously gonna hold appeal to rural folk still immersed in that cultural context, rather than the political nuances of the bastardization that's happened to it in recent years.
As a teenager, I listened to every Dropkick Murphys album front to back many times over. As an adult, I learned that a good deal of those Murphy songs are covers. I love randomly tripping over another song by reading/browsing and learning it's a cover. This is another one of those songs. A lot of them have history going way back, some even a couple hundred years. Idk if this song is about this event specifically, but it's definitely fitting. "Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?"
Fourth generation union worker here. This made me beam! Never cross a picket line! Solidarity forever!! Edit: thanks for the love guys, gals, nonbinary pals. Scabs can rot
Wish you guys could pull stuff like the Blair mountain skirmish in 1921 or the Battle of Deputy Run of 1934 or the Pullman Strike of 1894 again, I think the labor movement is in serious need of some militancy and certainly more general strikes, workers in the U.S. put up with too much BS from the government and the bosses alike and I find it criminal that workers can't be allowed to strike effectively against strikebreakers and scabs, I still remember the shameless attempts by my highschool at hiring scabs during my highschool's teachers' strike, just disgusting that people could just cross the picket line like that and sleep at night with a clear conscience
Wish the teachers union in my state would stop defending pedos and teachers so bad at their jobs that despite having some of the highest budgets in the nation we have some of the worst outcomes.
This comment is dedicated to the brave workers currently on strike at Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, WV, and those at Special Metals nearby.
Unisoft would never go for something so based as to set an assassins creed game during the Coal Wars. I'd play the fuck out of an assassins creed style game where you fought for a militant labor union thought.
@@h3069 So they would have to switch the gameplay up. Less emphasis on the Leap of Faith style shit and more on modern espionage tactics like using disguises for missions. Not a bad thing for a franchise that's gotten as stale as the company behind it.
Wouldn't mind it, give people an idea of what the 20s were really like, sure the aristocracy and the tycoons were living it up in their fancy skyscrapers in their quaint little motor cars, but what of the veteran coming back to work in the Pennsylvania steel mines? Or the farmer who's now floundering in debt because the war ended and he's stuck with all these new-fangled tractors and a crop that's not even worth having as much as it was worth a few months ago and who's on the verge of being forced to sell his land to some other tycoon to keep his head above water.
They’ll send you off to the trenches in passandale but won’t give you a nickel when you get back to Pennsylvania
Yeah them kentucky boys didn't take kindly to it either
What are you talking about
@@AndrewDelConte How in the Great Depression, WWI American veterans bonuses weren't payed but instead they were given "service bonus certificates" that can't be cashed out until 1945. See the Bonus Army for more info. OR maybe the general attitude of the Veterans' Affair to the Vets
@Tryandstopme ࿕ Americans need to stop glorifying the military. You shouldn´t have to risk bodily or mental harm to provide for yourself and your family.
@Tryandstopme ࿕ Guy with swastika in his username just wants to have a reasonable conversation, and other jokes you can tell yourself
''Youre fired for unionizing''
-''Oh well, That's funny because SO IS MY RIFLE''
"you will be dragged out of my office"
"So will your soul from this world"
" You'll be blacklisted if you keep up this organising "
" Well that's funny because we've already organised a place to lay you down, J. H. blair"
911 likes haha
Unions are for cucks
@@victorkreig6089 oh yes nothing like saying "here mister boss man, take more of my paycheck, please keep underpaying me and all other people in the work place"
You are a weakling who has never had to work in a team, a loser.
Honestly, a missed opportunity to have the stage set in Blair Mountain since those boys managed to blast into a federal armory and steal a machinegun.
Agree with the sentiment but Harlan is what inspired the song
@@funky7692 I know. But my grandfather who was a Pro-Unionist in West Virginia would sing this song too.
holy shit, is this from the same _war_ ?
@@pieterwillembotha6719 No, the Harlan County War was 31. Blair was in 21. I made a bit of a mistake, thinking that the song was based off of a stanza another Pro-Unionist had said. Thinking it was Mother Jones since she was ALL OVER Appalachia. But from what I know, some boys from West Virginia moved to Kentucky to support the union is Harlan since Blair Mountain had made an impact to small Unionist Organizations.
TLDR: Not the same war, sorta related. Made a mistake of quoting from another.
Thanks to those based lads the feds now separate Ammo and guns
Reminder that not only did the mine owners murder the sheriff in broad daylight for trying to prevent them from evicting miners from their homes, then machine gun workers for striking, the US government flew bombers overhead and dropped mustard gas on the miners when they fought back, then tried to prosecute them in court. If not for one of the miners presenting a dud round as evidence in court that the government had used chemical weapons on their own people, they'd have been found guilty.
And then the Bonus Marchers got massacred.
Cringe and Coalpilled.
@@mr.scorpion6925 Honestly I wouldn’t be too shocked to find out this did happen.
@@arandomcommenter412 battle of Blair mountain- 1921. That all lead up to a 3 day long trench battle with armored trains, nerve gas air raids, and machine gun emplacements.
Survives German mustard gas
Gets killed by his own government with mustard gas
Gets sent to court for dying on company time
Refuses to elaborate
Chad miners
Fr pre WW2 america sounds hellish
The boys out east still talk about that day, wasn't expecting a piece of history from my state.
Edit: The rifle sounds and reminds me of a Springfield 1903
It actually sounds like a *krag* *Jorgensen* to me :0
@@OperatorJackYT Most the WW1 vets from around when this happened were issued 1903's in the war though it wouldn't be unusual at all to see some Krags in the mix.
@@Senor_Penor I was just thinking because they were workers it will be more plausible for them to be using krag-jorgensen's
A 30-30 too
That's chambered in 30-30 right?
As a Kentuckian, it never fails to sadden me that so many aren't familiar with such aspects of our history, and Appalachian history in general. Most are more than willing to defend the predatory business interests that have plagued this land for generations, even those who are quite visibly their prey. It's not even a partisan issue here. Everyone just endorses and perpetuates this oppression on both sides of the aisle. Absolutely disgraceful.
I just had someone tell me that labor unions are for lazy entitled people and that if you do your job you shouldn't be afraid of your Boss. I think I know which side he was on
After working for fedex I know what fucking side I'm on.
Thats because you guys dont really have a left-side party in the US, and not even real unions anymore since after the red scare.
@@LordSyphilis me in hell: WHERE IS SENATOR MCCARTHY? WHERE IS RONALD REAGAN??
I still fail to understand why people blindly support the oppression
The one dislike was obviously on the *wrong* side
Well i guess im also on wrong side
@@afaqiskenderova9029 Guess so
Lousy scab
make that 25 SCABs on the wrong side
@@afaqiskenderova9029 stop you thug for jh Blair
@@superbananas7792 cope
Company: You’re fired for unionizing. These men are going to escort you out of your company owned home.
Ww1 veteran miner: (Loads 03 Springfield with malicious intent.)
With based intent
There is nothing malicious in a little pesticide.
what's malicious?
@@Matzu-Music 'you fucked around, now you're gonna find out' intent
Boss: you’re fired from your job
Me: you’re fired from life
I’m glad you picked bleeding Harlan it’s a piece of my state’s history that more people should know about thank you
NMU was a communist organization?
I mean they wouldn’t have been capitalists
Likewise. Have some extended family there to this day.
@@S3aCa1mRa1n which side are you on?
“Deputy Jim Daniels jumped out and hid behind a rock. Daniels was one of the most hated anti-union deputies in the county. Daniels raised his head to fire at the miners, but as soon as he did so, he was fatally shot and killed”
Owned lol
Deputy Jim Daniels
1900-1931
"Fucked Around, Found Out"
He should’ve kept his head down. If you’re in the general area that bullets are being fired at, trying to return fire is a bad idea. The second he moved behind the rock too, several of those guns were going to be following him and waiting like a hunter stalking a rabbit. If there were WWI vets among the miners, they definitely would’ve known the stupidity of doing what he did because of the trench warfare in Europe.
Based
Another scrub down lol gg no re
As a kid from the early 2010's would say, "Lmao get quickscoped noob"
Such a shame that so many have forgotten that the owner class is not your friend.
the bourgeois have spent decades convincing the people of the world that their oppression is whats best for them. i hope that with the clear failures of capitalism becoming more and more present, this will change
@@czKyoutube just become a class traitor is the funniest mindest bootlicker
@@czKyoutube How do you do, fellow temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
Your boss needs you more than you need him - Labor is entitled to all that it creates!
@@czKyoutube "If you work hard enough, you can impose shitty conditions on others instead of yourself."
As a Pennsylvanian, my heart goes out to my fellow mining brethren...
Hear hear brother
As a transplant to Appalachia, I wish labor here did better. Yall deserve so much more for how hard you work. 12 hours a day, in the factories, in the fields, in the mines, in facilities, on the roads, 5 or even 6 days a week, any weather, no whining, no complaining, just getting it done. Yallve earned better than the worst conditions in the country. Let's not go to work for a week and see how they get by without us.
You have a furry avatar.
@@garfocusalternate so?
your brethren were in the south and all the virginian states, including your state, which sent people to help West Virginias
Which Side Are You On is such a powerful song. A strike leaders wife, Florence Reece, wrote it after the corrupt sheriff and his deputies forced their way into her house searching for her husband Samuel. Samuel escaped, but the deputies threatened her and their children. After they left, Florence wrote the lyrics on their kitchen calendar, and used the tune from an old Baptist hymn.
America is insane. Much of the world had problems with unions and suppression, but the scale of difference is just absurd.
@loomhigh it gets like that when you can enforce those rights with physical force
@@loomhigh In our country Czechia in 1920s and 30s there were massive strikes and some fights with cops. People dont have access to weapons but workers throwing stuff and especially big screws. It was one of few moments of history when Germans and Czechs stands together against goverment.
@@Komotau4691 It’s a good thing us Americans have the 2nd amendment so we can protect our rights against corruption with arms. Like the men at Mount Blaire.
@@loomhigh every country has/had similar problems with issues, America is just better known and documented
That whole generation was tough
You fight the Germans
You fight the Great Depression
You fight the Germans AGAIN
Those germans never learn, do they?
@@anagnorisis1522 You know what they say practice makes perfect and all good things go by three.
Get ready for the next round.
Oh for sure they were tough, thats why post ww2 america was beautiful.
@@trashcanman6649 Buddy, that WAS the third round..
@@sahaquiel4640 what was the first round
I appreciate there being no advertisements at either end of this. If the grim fade-out transitioned into a company loudly trying to sell me something, it would have been a sour irony that I couldn't stand.
I know exactly what video got recommended to you before you made this.
Link?
@@ObamaTookMyDer th-cam.com/video/VzvH5UZVQU8/w-d-xo.html
Same
You don’t know me and you don’t know what I’ve been through.
You’re right though.
You mean this?
th-cam.com/video/sLuZhYe9WuQ/w-d-xo.html
The union talks aren't an alternative to sucking it up.
The union talks are an alternative to popping a cap in the billionaires' heads.
When unions become just mere proxies for said billionaires (21st century) 👀
🔫 🔫
@@mortagagedfreemen323Precisely why we need to form unions underground instead of joining an older one. If the official unions are corrupt, then the unofficial ones are preferable.
The official unions have been neutered and made into pawns.
Why not both?
@@mortagagedfreemen323 BS Corporations spend billions fighting Unions, that's such a dumb take. Unions, even in their current state, are good and should be supported by every worker. Reminder that police unions aren't real unions, they are union busters and should be dissolved.
Should have a link to an article talking about the warrior met coal miner's strike down here in alabama, as well as the kellog's one.
100 years after blair mountain and we're still doing this.
I’ll try to learn more about this. I really am glad the internet allows people like me to find info about stuff like that, or else I might still think the south and Appalachia was just all far right like most libs.
@@aofdoom5030 Plenty of guys around here belong to a labor union, thing is most of them are socially conservative and very blue-collar so they don't exactly identify with the "left", and to be honest I don't really blame them. I think if libs (or leftists idk) wanted to make gains with these people in the future they'd be wise to consider their sensibilities.
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr It's because leftists in America have never been the brightest bunch, in either ability or even doctrine. It never really dawned on them why there are so few truly left wing nations left.
Till every battle's won.
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr Fuck labels. There's shitheads in every direction. You don't need buzzwords to realize that corporate pigs will always be thieving bastards.
Videos like this won't be amusing fantasies for long. They'll be an obligation.
in a way, I'm sad that labour conflicts don't work like this anymore. Boses are a lot more compliant when they have the threat of assassination hanging over their heads.
Unfortunately the modern labor movement is pretty anti gun.
It's not even about guns, it's lack of class consciousness.
@@isexuallyidentifyasukraini5407 class consciousness is useless without arms when the upper class is actively trying to kill you.
Look at Iran.
With the widening of the middle class comes a reduction in class consciousness. The advent of the middle class directly lead to Armed Unionizing becoming nearly extinct, especially in the US.
@@bitspokes496 The IDEA of universal middle class status is what weakens the feeling of the need for Labor.
"John Brown's Body" but your bleeding out on the floor in Harpers Ferry
Cope
Man imagine how History would have played out if John Brown was successful.
@@gilgameshofuruk6743 technically John Brown won in the end
@@zacklapaglia7644 If he successfully took Harper's Ferry it would've been so sexy
@@gilgameshofuruk6743 What's there to cope about? We just can't stop winning. 😎
And 100 years later, I still get fired for unionizing.
Exactly. One step forward (with the help of guns, ammo, and overwhelming numbers), two steps back the instant we relax. The rich will always eat you.
Well it’s time to fire something else
Hey, there must be a positive side to guns being readily avaliable
That probably means that it's time to find a better trade that will give you more leverage.
@@BASEDKAISER Or just get that leverage by forming unions. I dont care for the idea of being screwed by the corporate, with the only option on the table being quitting your job and hope the next one isnt as bad.
True collective action. Love to see modern retellings of old labor movements; it’s something we’re sorely missing nowadays.
I am glad that such stories are coming to light in Australia, but it would also be fascinating to see America's because it seems to be so much less of a success story and far more dramatic. One of the only advanced capitalist countries not to form a labor-based party that plays a major role in American elections, and certainly among the most violently oppressed.
@@loomhigh much less of a success story is the understatement of the century lol. the idea that there even was once a moderately plausible socialist party of america candidate for president (Eugene Debbs, etc.) is mind boggling if you were to just look at the political state of the country today.
I'm not your ally just because we work together, unions kinda suck
@@AR15andGODThen your a thug for J. H. Claire.
i wish coal worker in my country have guts like this guy
It’s been 100 years since the battle of Blair mountain, remember never trust or like big corporations, see how than and now how they treat the working man
POV: It's 3 a.m and you're 8 hours into a Syndicalist US playthrough
based
Sorry! I only play as Huey Long Dong!
literally me right now but with the British union, it's nice to RP out a positive timeline for humanity
im currently liberating Canada and Quebec from some inbred royal family
Me taking over Asia as Japan while people weren't looking.
Rural workers in 1931: Sends his retort to bad pay and dangerous working conditions back to the company man at muzzle velocity
Rural workers in 2021: Step on me harder CEO sempai.
You sure about that? I’m a rural construction worker who’s threatened his boss many times for trying to underpay new kids into the trades
@@bongscholar3255 then you are truly, a comrade. O7
@@deathkorpstrooper8228 I’m telling you these good ol boys and rancheros are getting tired of being shafted by boss men, we’ll either make a Co-Op or force a lean. No one works until wages are raised, like a strike. Boss tries and force us out? Boss ends up bleeding
I don't think you actually live in a rural community if you unironically believe we're that passive. No one loses their shit over bad pay or shitty hours quite like an overworked country yokel lol
@@BruhMoment-fr4zr my experience is it depends on the age. Boomers will absolutely let the boss abuse them and they think it's some kind of virtue to get stomped on.
An actual left could win easily right now but the left we have is ran by rich college kids basing their politics on their own personal problems, elitism and white guilt.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
- Gramsci
My hometown was big on the union . . . to this day, Labor Day is the most celebrated holiday. I remember management would always ensure that contracts came up in December or January so that if workers went on strike, they'd have to strike in the cold. I distinctly remember one such strike in December of 1979 in northern Michigan when I was a child. We (my mother, brother, and I), "crossed the picket line" and the striking workers started yelling at her, calling her a "scab." "I'm not a scab," my Mom said. "We just live over this way." We happened to live a half a block away from the shipyard.
These videos ironically are teaching me more interesting history than any class I’ve taken
Absolutely based
"Horthy Miklos katonája vagyok" but you are encircled at river Don
Мадьяр в плен не брать!
i would love that :D
ah yes please!
th-cam.com/video/p1zLYvtqFMM/w-d-xo.html
decided to do it myself :D
I remember listening to that banger on repeat
My father came from Harlan. Thank you for bringing light to our struggle, brother.
"the bitish grenadier" but you are about to charge at bunker hill and the militia men are shooting at you
Based and laborpilled
"Fortunate Son" but you're waiting on the evac helicopters.
I edited it because i realized i had a stroke typing it lol, I apparently put "Fortunate Son" but you're waiting on the waiting on the evac helicopters.
I'm surprised he hasn't done this yet.
Bird is the word but anyone who runs is a VC and anyone who stands is a well disciplined VC
This channel already did that but with House of the Rising Sun
The 40 hour workweek was bought with blood
And so will trans rights!!! the blood of themselves after they -ACK!!!! themselves 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
@@GAMER123GAMING soyteen
@@thebigcheese8169 keep yapping man
I love that the algorithm is presenting these videos now. There couldn't be a better time. We might be facing a similar situation all over the US soon.
"come out ye black and tans" but you're defending Dublin's Liberty hall while a gunboat is shelling your position.
"Come out ye black and tans" but Cork is burning
@A F "It's a long way to Tipperary" but you're getting ambushed in Tipperary by the IRA
@A F what flag flies in Dublin Castle?
@A F as opposed to the flag with simps so fucking weird they gave it a human name lmfao
@A F Seethe Britbong
Never forget that cops serve the owner, never the worker
Sheriff killed by owner trying to stop them from evicting workers
Sheriff Sid Hatfield fought along side the miners at Matewan. He even killed one of the co owners of the Baldwin felts agency.
@@mrsmith2876 that was 100 years ago. I have very little faith in modern law enforcement.
@@jacobpederson6628 I don't either. Except my local sheriff. In my area they're all locally elected, easily reachable and mine atleast has fought against state, municipal and federal overeach in the courts multiple times.
@@mrsmith2876 I used to live in a small town with a sheriff like that. He's long retired now unfortunately. Im happy there are still some good ones out there
“You will never leave Harlan alive.” But your stuck on blaire mountain, and the national guard is deploying.
g'overment folks ain't going to take my mines!!!!
The Baldwin-Felts and Pinkerton guys still got shot down in the streets of Harlan. Same with the guys in the Barbed Wire Wars and the Range Wars. If the locals are pissed enough, the corporats will enter alive and there they will remain, permanently.
The national guard actually never fired on the miners, since most of them were ww1 vets. The mining companies militia was the one the fought the miners
Bosses really need to face this again, things got done. Every so often your Blairs and Morgans and Rockefellers need to feel the cold fear of "How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?"
My great grandmother as a child wore her mother's bloomers and snuck onto the coal train and stuffed the bloomers full of coal. Her little sister who had scarlet fever at the time would distract guards by holding up a conversation, and as a last-ditch effort would take off her cap and expose her bald head to shock them. A wholesome heist all around.
Sounds like an amazing 1st introductory mission for an Appalachian Assassins Creed game.
Funny how this popped back in my recommendations after the rail strike decisions. Best of luck from ireland lads, let's hope history doesn't have to repeat itself.
But it always does
Looks at the state of work and living conditions today :
*sigh*
"How many times are we gonna have to teach you this lesson porky ?"
*grabs banjo and red handkerchief*
Good look fighting global corporations that push green energy that really kill coal mining jobs
@@Detroittruckdoctor55 green energy also creates jobs tho.
@@alejandrochalco6893 Gotta wait a little longer for the AI automatization crysis to kick in to high gear. Then we won't have to worry about anything creating more jobs.
@@Skynet5885 Agreed
@@alejandrochalco6893 it cost the transportation energy millions a year. Smsll bussiness truckers have to replace 25k exhaust every 3 years
I feel the balance between guns and music is the best in this one that ive heard
"Teenage Dirtbag" but your convoy is being ambushed by the Iraqi Republican Guard
@Your local CAFGU in your area Oh right my bad lol wrong era hahaha let me change that real quick
@Your local CAFGU in your area also hey Mr CAFGU, seen any NPA recently?
Generation Kill vibes
Good recommendation. I remember watching a clip of a show where some soldiers Iraq sung it.
@@kita7647 Yeah thats from Generation Kill hahahaha
this feels like he's finally flipped and has nothing left to lose
if the owners fire you and kick you out of your home, what do you have to lose?
Truth is, workers never had anything to lose (but their chains) B)
It's the boss and the landlord that have things they could lose. Worker families and single workers stick together. They can get employment and housing again. The boss has their one lifeboat and we don't, we swim from one to the next (until we get kicked out/leave of our own will again.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
Hail to the workers
A reminder that the Pinkertons are still around still doing exactly what they were doing 100 years ago
“Your fired”
“Not when I have my M1903 Springfield”
Gonna blast this outside an amazon facility
I hear Bessemer, Alabama has a lack of this...
I can't imagine anything more reddit and pathetic than doing that. I wish you luck
"Fly me to the moon" but you're orbiting in the command module alone while your crewmates walk on the surface
RIP Collins
It’s a damn shame Collins never walked on the moon but Shepard did. Rest among the stars Micheal Collins.
Clever
They would never make a tv show based on this I can picture this a scene while the song rings.
there was "Damnation", which was about union struggle in the early 20th century, though not this union struggle specifically.
The realization that workers can, in fact, fight back is dangerous to the class that makes the movies.
There was a movie about the Harlan County strike in 1920.
I do like how occasionally, the sound effect of the bolt being worked takes a moment to complete. Best heard at 0:24. Anyone who's shot a older bolt gun knows occasionally the bolt gets caught when opening or closing and it takes a second to adjust your hand to finish the cycle. Not to mention the sound of reloading being added instead of just constant firing and cycling. Honestly one of the best "(Song name) but XXX" videos out there.
Imagine using the national guard to help a mining company break up a strike. Unthinkable, eh?
Workers: "we demand better pay and treatment at work!"
Mining company, the State & Federal government:
*"COMMUNISTS DETECTED ON AMERICAN SOIL, LETHAL FORCE ENGAGED"*
Had to come back to this after going over the events leading up to and following the Battle of Blair Mountain again. The coal miners were and are still looked down upon. May God bless them
I've been to the monument for the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado. Pretty depressing how poorly these miners were treated and how this major piece of American history isn't really talked about much.
Well considering the government then and now wants to keep up this facade of “land of the free” it’s not to surprising to see it covered up along with other historic things occurring during that time the focus also shifts to those as well taking away from things like this which eventually to all but a few fade away
Of course it isn’t talked about. Wouldn’t want the filthy proles to get any ideas eh?
Damn these miners really played Antistasi IRL
The best comment that only a few shall get
@@thepeoplesrepublicofdisney5058 arma right?
We need this energy back today. Companies have become far too complacent
I need this but with Railroad Workers in light of current events
"Bury me not on the Lone Prairie" by Colter Wall but your car broke down in the middle of nowhere on the Great Plains.
West 'By God' Virginia always has your back, Kentucky. May the bourbon flow and bluegrass grow while we fight for life and pride in Appalachia during these troubling times.
May we never forget those who came before us and fought for what was right. From Mingo, to Harlan, to Asheville, to Uniontown, we are all in this together.
Stay strong, boys. May God bless you and watch over you along your way. Support the hospital strike in Huntington.
With Huntington all the way. Remember CHH and Special Metals. This is just the beginning of something.
The accuracy is astonishing. In the actual battle a single shot was fired first debated by which side, after that the leading car stopped and the deputy acompanying it jumped out behind a roadside rock, and when he reemerged to shoot a miner got shot and died. I counted roughly 50+ shots during one minute, which is also very spot on, because the actual battle lasted for 15 minutes and circa a thousand shots were fired.
Greetings from Russia! Heard from IWW that now you guys are facing a lot of struggle and wish you good luck. If American workers win then it will have an impact all over the world. Unfortunately, in my country, people are only starting to realize their class interests
Not gonna lie. It's getting pretty crazy in America right now. The people are more angry than I've ever seen.
If y'all got any surplus AKs, PKMs, or... hell, mosin-nagants, can you do us a favor and smuggle them over?
@@dreamwalker4884 I would be honoured, my friend, but contrary to the stereotypes, automatic weaponry is very hard to access in our country (unless it is Nortern Caucasus, guys there are keeping some good stuff). I guess the ARs will perform not worse in using your Second Amendment the way it was intended for
@@f-man3274 my friend, the second ammendment has been gutted by politicians to make sure we can't ever truly resist.
As you mentioned, don't believe the stereotypes. As much as the right wing in this country hypes it up, in the end it's nothing but an illusion they use to keep us docile.
@@f-man3274 ahh damn. That's horrible D:
Maybe your government can send us lend lease like our predecessors did during WWII. Also the Soviet Union was a good thing and it's horrible that it was destroyed. D:
I was born and raised in Harlan Co, Cawood to be specific. My dad was a miner in Harlan Co. and my mom grew up a miner's daughter in a coal camp with scrip as the only real currency. This song is part of my family and my heritage.
It's a damn shame that the Gadsden Flag has been co-opted by lousy scabs. It's got so much weight behind it as a symbol. Keep that flame burning, freedom fighter.
And yet you’re a libertarian?
Your movement stands against unions
@@accounteliminato3885 He's not. He's just from West Virginia.
@@felixbabuf5726 well, his pfp is literally the libertarian flag
@@accounteliminato3885 Dude, it was the Gadsden Flag way before it became associated with Libertarianism. It was one of the main symbols of the Revolution, so it's obviously gonna hold appeal to rural folk still immersed in that cultural context, rather than the political nuances of the bastardization that's happened to it in recent years.
The working man is the soldier, poet and rightful king of his domain, woe be the corporation who treads on the iron spined viper!
this is perhaps the most iconic thing ever
As a teenager, I listened to every Dropkick Murphys album front to back many times over. As an adult, I learned that a good deal of those Murphy songs are covers. I love randomly tripping over another song by reading/browsing and learning it's a cover. This is another one of those songs. A lot of them have history going way back, some even a couple hundred years. Idk if this song is about this event specifically, but it's definitely fitting. "Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?"
Fourth generation union worker here. This made me beam! Never cross a picket line! Solidarity forever!!
Edit: thanks for the love guys, gals, nonbinary pals. Scabs can rot
How bout those Kellogg strikes?
Those guys fucking rock! I am more hopeful about american labor than ever before in my life.
Wish you guys could pull stuff like the Blair mountain skirmish in 1921 or the Battle of Deputy Run of 1934 or the Pullman Strike of 1894 again, I think the labor movement is in serious need of some militancy and certainly more general strikes, workers in the U.S. put up with too much BS from the government and the bosses alike and I find it criminal that workers can't be allowed to strike effectively against strikebreakers and scabs, I still remember the shameless attempts by my highschool at hiring scabs during my highschool's teachers' strike, just disgusting that people could just cross the picket line like that and sleep at night with a clear conscience
Wish the teachers union in my state would stop defending pedos and teachers so bad at their jobs that despite having some of the highest budgets in the nation we have some of the worst outcomes.
@@thelordofcringe stop teaching CRT propaganda to kids.
When people learn that they have nothing to lose but their chains, thats when the "pro gamer moves" start
Its a crime the labor movement gets glossed over in history classes
that's by design. They dont want you to know you have the rights to fight for your rights.
Being from Harlan county, I love my county’s rebellious history.
This might be the most specific youtube video I've ever seen. And I love it.
Soviet Anthem but you're the last soldier of the USSR while they're lowering the flag.
Good, all commies should hang
@@lenney872 oh look a banker
@@lenney872 >Pepe pfp
@@loona_mew Bankers funded and ran the Soviet Union.
Damn that already giving me feels. Shit...
wish they did this sort of thing today when it comes to scabs
dislikes are the Pinkertons
This comment is dedicated to the brave workers currently on strike at Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, WV, and those at Special Metals nearby.
"The Cliff" but you're a Soviet marine in Chernobyl Power Plant.
Now: YOU CAN'T UNIONIZE! THAT'S ENTITLED! ARE YOU A SOCIALIST?? NOOOO
Then: If the boss won't give me my pay he goes in the ground.
It gives me hope, once the working people had the will to fight. Maybe one day we will remember.
This period and events would be a great Assassins' Creed game.
Unisoft would never go for something so based as to set an assassins creed game during the Coal Wars.
I'd play the fuck out of an assassins creed style game where you fought for a militant labor union thought.
Feel like it wouldn't really be assassin's creedy, like you'd run at a guy with a hidden blade and just get popped 6 times and die
@@h3069 So they would have to switch the gameplay up. Less emphasis on the Leap of Faith style shit and more on modern espionage tactics like using disguises for missions. Not a bad thing for a franchise that's gotten as stale as the company behind it.
Worker 1 : we gonna strike
Worker 2 : strike by stop working right?
Worker 1 : by .30 cal
Arise, ye workers from your slumbers...
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of can't!
People always forget about these wars in history I feel. Battle of Homestead, Battle of Blair Mountain, Harlan County War. The list goes on.
Labor day, 2023.
Thank you, for everything.
"We loaded our rifles, and prayed we fired true. As the motorcade approached, so hath our destiny."
"Defend the yellow river" but the Japanese armour has arrived
Need a game based off this era to remind people
Wouldn't mind it, give people an idea of what the 20s were really like, sure the aristocracy and the tycoons were living it up in their fancy skyscrapers in their quaint little motor cars, but what of the veteran coming back to work in the Pennsylvania steel mines? Or the farmer who's now floundering in debt because the war ended and he's stuck with all these new-fangled tractors and a crop that's not even worth having as much as it was worth a few months ago and who's on the verge of being forced to sell his land to some other tycoon to keep his head above water.
Hunt: Showdown is probably the closest thing that comes to my mind
"You're fired for unionizing"
- oh i'm sorry, **Points rifle** who gave YOU the power..
I lived in harlan County for 6 years. Very surprised to see memes about it lol.
One struggle brother
We need more 1930s harlan memes ngl
Workers of all lands unite.
Your never leave Harlan alive
Godspeed my fellow Harlan Bois I'll be back soon
Remember
You may not have right to unionise but you have right to bear arms
Holy shit, here it is comrades, the perfect Labor Day song.
"They say that war is hell. Well, guess I'm gonna bring some hell tonight!"
Goosebumps.
Unions in the 30 “which side are you on?”
Unions in 21 “Don’t sweep the floor plumber, that’s the laborers job.”
Striking miners: I MAY BE A POOR MINER BUT I STILL HAVE MY RIFLE FROM MY DAYS OF THE GREAT WAR!!!