tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post141022057575850238..comments2024-03-05T21:04:43.133-05:00Comments on The Cahokian: Proletariata Obsolescens: My Pocket Palishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-33199478457099870322010-11-15T12:01:28.213-05:002010-11-15T12:01:28.213-05:00My RU friend, Pat Hickey, was the nephew of the fo...My RU friend, Pat Hickey, was the nephew of the founding president at another steelworker's local. He had great stories to tell. "The company gave in. We had our first contract. Everybody's down at the hall drinkin' and celebrating when I remembered, Holy Jesus! We forgot to get the dynamite out from under the railroad tracks!" <br />When I first moved up here I met an old Trotskyist. He was semi homeless, lived in his old rv and hung out with the Earth First!/IWW crowd. He was involved in the Oakland general strike of 1946. Unlike the 1934 SF strike, the Oakland strike failed but not before there were some big battles and wild moments. <br />I always sought those guys out when I was young. Now I am one of those guys. Yep, I was in Harlan county back in '74. I was there when they broke the Dodge truck wildcat. I was in Ed Sadlowski's steel worker's local. <br />That's just some of the stuff people have heard of. I got teargassed by the Paterson New Jersey cops when I was 15. I organized sabotage at the lumber yard where I worked when I was 18. I started an organizing drive in Indiana that that lasted several years and finally won. <br />I hope this shit doesn't end with me.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-42765398530897385982010-11-15T11:01:37.172-05:002010-11-15T11:01:37.172-05:00I didn't know that about one of your coworkers...I didn't know that about one of your coworkers! It's easy to think about stuff like that as "the history of the labor movement" rather than "the day some of my old co-worker's friends got shot at work."ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31981949.post-81931825179954464222010-11-14T22:10:27.368-05:002010-11-14T22:10:27.368-05:00All my metallurgical skills that I worked so hard ...All my metallurgical skills that I worked so hard to learn are now as quaint as horse shoeing. Seriously, almost nothing I learned is currently used in industry although people still use those processes in home workshops. Just another old timer reminiscing about days gone by. <br />Did you know that one of the real old timers I worked with in Chicago was at the Republic Steel Massacre? He was a damn good weldor and he hated the bosses in ways that the sparts could only dream of.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.com