My mother's family were on the main union organizers. My grandfather, on the railroad, my uncle William, Teamsters. The Rail Dicks(detectives)/Union Breakers tried to kill my grandfather twice. He killed one in self defense, which he was exonerated for. A rarity to be sure. 20 years later, my uncle was killed for organizing. I have been a union member off and on my working life. I have seen what the union can do for good.

When I hear/read about right wingers whining about the FBI, police, etc. I am pretty much gobsmacked. Those people always served the Conservative Elements. Ya'll shouldn't of been so blatant with your Insurrectionist Bullshit. Now they are crying about being persecuted. Fuck that. Union & Civil Rights activist have been under the gun for 150 years in this country. All I can say to their whinging, is "Suck It Up".



2nd Palmer Raids Begin (1920)

On this day in 1920, the Department of Justice launched a series of attacks against leftists and labor organizers across more than 23 states, arresting more than 3,000. President Hoover later admitted that there were "clear cases of brutality".

The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. The raids targeted suspected leftists and labor activists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants, especially if they were anarchists or communists, and generally sought to deport them from the United States.

The arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with more than 3,000 arrested. Though 556 people were deported, including prominent anti-capitalist thinkers like Emma Goldman, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to DOJ methods.

Although the DOJ initially claimed to have taken possession of several bombs, no evidence of the bombs was produced. In their entirety, all of the raids confiscated just four pistols.

Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/12/red- … -world-iww