1913 Massacre

[billrakis]

Head of the strike was Tikas Louis. Louis Tikas (Luis Tikas or Elias Spantidakis ) was a Greek from Crete, a trade unionist who was murdered in 1914 in Colorado USA during a monumental labor strike in the mines. The memory is still alive in American unions.In Rethymnon, place of origin, to his credit, there Spantidakis Elias Street. The Tikas soon acquired the confidence of employees and becoming a leading figure. The "Louis the Greek" or Leo the Cretan, was called as a legend....

[TruegrassBoy]

What the hell does Rosa Parks have to do with union people being slaughtered by corporate scabs??

[EdUCate4All]

deltapunk21...Here's hoping you experience real life instead of the sheltered existence you have led. May you lose your job to corporate greed. May you contract an illness or injury and lose your healthcare. May you and/or your relatives be drafted into an army fighting for oil companies.  May you be discriiminated against because of your sex, skin color, religion or heritage.

Last - may you find yourself making your blathering arguements in a barroom full of pissed off blue collar workers.

[junkyardpolester]

@deltapunk21...You do live up to your name...punkass!  73 people died: 11 adults and 62 children! Tell me about all those children being killed. Where they all armed and fighting the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.? You are an asshole with shit-for-brains. No company is RIGHT when they kill! Why do you post such runny bullshite?

[tedsplitter]

73 people died: 11 adults and 62 children. In the months before, the company called in the national guard to attack pickets. The Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. controlled the police, the council, the courts and the church. The company boss, James MacNaughton, founded a vigilante group called the Citizens Alliance which was responsible for the tragedy at Italian Hall. He was paid $83,000 a yr while the miners received $2-$3 for a 10hr day. History is full of scum like him. I know which side I'm on.

[MELISSA84008]

@tedsplitter Thank you for sharing,,,very sad sad story indeed!!

[noweedman]

@tedsplitter

[ajgolfer1]

rosa parks?

[oneclearcall4me]

This video is a tribute to many of the women who fought the good fight for all of us. How could I neglect Rosa?

[ajgolfer1]

i thought the video was about the 1913 massacre up here in michigan

[deltapunk21]

Guthrie was a Communsit pig a frickin liar. There ws no "massacrE" just criminal "laborite" terrorist murdering people and whinig that they might have had people defend themselves and property against their vicious attacks.

[kristi1717]

First of all, moron, learn how to spell. Second, my great grandfather was there that night w/my then young grandfather-he wasn't a 'terrorist', just a guy trying to make a living. 3rd, Guthrie was a Genius. Go f**k youself.

[gabriel72r]

haha ..straight to the point !!!

[ZEITGEISTism]

deltapunk21

You filthy evil shit Who the hell do you think you are ? How DARE you tell such Bloody Viscious LIES.......Those people were striking because of the Criminal way in which they were being EXPLOITED as workers WHO are you Rockerfeller ? You sure have his criminal mentality ....Scum like you? BURN IN HELL

WE.. the workers are more than all the elite bastards put together And Its about time they REMEMBER that too !!

[noweedman]

@ZEITGEISTism tie these greedy bastard to "their" belongings they have stolen from those that slaved for them and dump the wohle bundle of shit in the golf; give´em a taste of their own medicine. the sooner the better.

the more slaves they find the bigger the power to exploit new slaves. stop slaving for them

[pippofilippo1]

Thanks a lot for this wonderful docu on a great song,

for Woody, memory and history.

From Italy