A further history of violent strikes
Journey to the Fringe · Journey to the Fringe
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Show Notes
We are starting this year off with one of our annual history lessons. This one is on the struggle of the working class to amass rights. Today we will talk about the Thibodaux Massacre and the Vancouver general strike of 1918.
The Thibodaux Massacre is the story of newly freed slaves working on sugar plantations in Louisiana. Although the slaves had been freed, the wages and living conditions shared many similarities to their past lives. The workers strike and shit goes down.
The Vancouver general strike was only a one day event that was spurred on by the death of Ginger (a local union organizer) but it is an important part of Canadian history and part of a chain of massive strikes that ripped through Canada in the late 1910s. Definitely worth the listen.
In the intro we update the story of the underdog San Francisco Police Department banding together and pushing legislation to allow them to kill civilians with exploding robots. We also speculate on other possible markets to sell exploding robots, our answers may surprise you (they will not we picked prisons).