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Poisoning all your cups this Christmas eve tonight.
In the year 1913 the miners employed by the Calamut and Hecla mining companies went on strike, protesting low pay and poor safety conditions. Beginning earlier in the year 1913, the strike wore on to the Christmas season. The miner’s union, supporting the families during the strike put on a Christmas party at the Italian Hall in Calamut, Michigan on Christmas Eve, 1913.
Outside, strike breakers and company bosses loitered. In the course of the night, one of them entered the hall and shouted “fire!” while outside strike breakers locked the doors. In the ensuing chaos there was a stampede for the door, positioned at the bottom of the stairs to the upper-floor dance hall. When it was realized there was no fire, and the dust settled over sixty children were killed, crushed in the sudden panic to escape through locked doors.
It’s been over a hundred years, and justice hasn’t been served.
The doors to the hall, as per fire regulations opened outward. The pressure of the crowd should have opened them. But they had otherwise been sealed shut.
Wood Guthrie - 1913
In the year 1913 the miners employed by the Calamut and Hecla mining companies went on strike, protesting low pay and poor safety conditions. Beginning earlier in the year 1913, the strike wore on to the Christmas season. The miner’s union, supporting the families during the strike put on a Christmas party at the Italian Hall in Calamut, Michigan on Christmas Eve, 1913.
Outside, strike breakers and company bosses loitered. In the course of the night, one of them entered the hall and shouted “fire!” while outside strike breakers locked the doors. In the ensuing chaos there was a stampede for the door, positioned at the bottom of the stairs to the upper-floor dance hall. When it was realized there was no fire, and the dust settled over sixty children were killed, crushed in the sudden panic to escape through locked doors.
It’s been over a hundred years, and justice hasn’t been served.
The doors to the hall, as per fire regulations opened outward. The pressure of the crowd should have opened them. But they had otherwise been sealed shut.
Wood Guthrie - 1913
that’s just adding insult to injury!
I wonder how the world would change, if investing your money in a company also made you responsible for their actions, and culpable for your assistance in their crimes.