Get Your Rifles - Battle of Blair Mountain - US History - Part 2 - Extra History

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McDowell County, West Virginia. August 1st, 1921.
15 months after the Matewan Massacre, Sid Hatfield was gunned down in front of a courthouse. The Baldwin Felts agents had gotten their revenge and planted guns on the dead. The miner's anger boiled over and they'd finally had enough. They got their rifles and headed to Blair Mountain. Where Sheriff Chafin, Governor Morgan, Logan County officials, and Military Leader General Harry Bandholtz waited for their charge.
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@extrahistory Год назад

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@pyeitme508 Год назад

Meh

@ahmedezzat8745 Год назад

Yes but how do we go to the nebula star cluster

@brody1080 Год назад

I'd love I'd love to get nebula but my dad probably wouldn't wouldn't let us get it

@pinkypink5161 Год назад

This is why the state is more dangerous than evil corporations.

@HamSaladtv Год назад

Great show lads. I hope you do a broader and deeper dive into US Labor History. All American History is labor history, and we forget that.

@stankmcdankton6204 Год назад

" They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there. You'll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Blair. Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? "

@Sweetteaandanarchy Год назад

It's just a real shame Florence Reece wouldn't write that for another decade after Blair Mountain

@kadenyt6623 Месяц назад

i am on the side 0f the corps the miners knew what they agreed to and could have quit

@OGEdger Год назад

If unions were ineffective, corporations wouldn't be trying to prevent them.

@spartanx9293 Год назад

So long as membership is optional I don't care

@OGEdger Год назад

@@spartanx9293 That's cool. Even nonunion members benefit from unions. 👍

@DSiren Год назад

it's also why there's so much money being poured into anti-gun policies. The greatest power a Union has is the ability to become a militia if certain lines are crossed.

@thomasmeagher8941 Год назад

@@DSirenThat’s the truth

@insertnamehere1258 Год назад

@@DSirenyeah. The reason automatic weapons were banned was so that the Workers, and the Leftists in general, could stage an uprising.

@brianhall4182 Год назад

It just goes to show why a) Corporations need to be scrutinized and held in check, b) Corporate money needs to stay out of politics, and c) unions are important. People really need to learn from history.

@BeaglzRok1 Год назад

Collective bargaining is important, unions just help give a professional face to it so it doesn't look like an unruly mob, and in some cases also need to be scrutinized and held in check in case they're taking too big of a cut from the workers' paychecks to fund themselves and compromise too heavily in negotiations. Big yes to everything else.

@joewilson3575 Год назад

Corporations need to be nationalised more like and all that corporate money put into good public use, but what you said is a good starting point!

@robgraham5697 Год назад

Unfortunately, most people prefer mythology to history.

@Charles-js3ri Год назад

We need something like the Tillman act put back into law. That'll block corporations from donating to politicians or parties.

@TESkyrimizer Год назад

No man I'd rather focus on... *checks notes*... alienating LGBTQ people and millenials for existing

@DavidJamesHenry Год назад

It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade Built the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid Now we stand outcast and starving 'midst the wonders we have made But the union makes us strong!

@MCKevin289 Год назад

Solidarity forever!

@gemattack1442 Год назад

The union makes us strong

@davidwilson2857 Год назад

Sad but true 😭

@alejandrorivas4585 Год назад

BUT THE BANKS ARE MADE OF MARBLE, WITH A GUARD AT EVERY DOOR AND THE VAULTS ARE STUFFED WITH SILVER, THAT THE WORKER SWEATTED FOR

@casematecardinal Год назад

Unions don't make you strong. Dont misconstrue collective barging with unions. They can help but they aren't the source of a worker's power. Never forget that.

@michaelgranholm7598 Год назад

I love that one wife beat an assassin with an umbrella.

@WatcherCobalt Год назад

She was braver than any scab or strikebreaker to ever walk this earth.

@ecurewitz Год назад

She deserves a medal

@peggyliepmann5248 Год назад

Don't anger a coal miner wife, man.

@BlueHooloovoo Год назад

Very different breed of women back then.

@DaniStarEngland Год назад

@@BlueHooloovoo don't assume women are weaker today. Just look to Iran

@alexbanner3210 Год назад

Rest in peace to the miners. Their country betrayed them.

@twenty-fifth420 Год назад

Wouldnt be the first time sadly if you are aware of labor history….. This is why Unions are important.

@evilwithatwist4184 Год назад

@@twenty-fifth420 only some unions

@Muffinmurdurer Год назад

They were never on the same side. Their country and government never even began to think of anything other than the potential loss of profits.

@fedupN Год назад

The capitalists murdered them.

@twenty-fifth420 Год назад

@@evilwithatwist4184 Oh right, forgot about the Police Union. But most unions, not some. Probably like, 90% of them.

@ItsmeInternetStranger Год назад

A detail that's easy to overlook given Sid Hatfield's distinguished jawline is the fact that the man was at the oldest, 30 at the time of his death, though some sources say 28.

@dunbass7149 Год назад

Sorry but now is it distinguished

@nordinreecendo512 Год назад

@@dunbass7149 His jawline fought in Vietnam and brought peace to the Middle-East.

@tuankhangcaonguyen5545 Год назад

@@nordinreecendo512 lol. What peace? Don't speak like the US came to the eastern side to do anything good

@casematecardinal Год назад

@@tuankhangcaonguyen5545 eastern side?

@ntfoperative9432 Год назад

@@tuankhangcaonguyen5545 it's middle east, and yes, the US did do some good. It's because of the US that the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein was brought down. It's because of the US that (until recently) Afghanistan was free of Taliban rule

@will_from_pa Год назад

Remember, if the bosses had their way, you'd be chained to your workstation 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's only because of people like the miners who fought for labor rights that we have any rights.

@LEEboneisDaMan Год назад

The minimum wage, weekends, workers comp, and so many other basics of modern life were paid for in blood. The blood of the workers who fought to make them happen.

@comradedimitry1349 Год назад

Νο

@Archgeek0 Год назад

@@LEEboneisDaMan Heck, the very concept of the 5-day work week, especially for those who get weekends off.

@Darkdjinn79 Год назад

Unions are need even more today then ever

@devinh.9683 Год назад

no one is forcing you to work for a company like that. labor employment, like all other trades, are an economic transaction between two willing parties. Just like you don't have the right to stop your customer from walking away when you force them to pay a minimum price for your apple, if you are a farmer.

@1jimmarch Год назад

Sid Hatfield was dragged to court on a completely bogus case knowing that he would be disarmed by the rules of the courthouse. It was a setup from the beginning. If you go to court in Washington state or Arizona while armed, you have to declare your weapons before you get to the metal detectors. They give you a key to one of the lock boxes right there at the door where you can stash your personal artillery or whatever. I believe Nevada does the same but I'm not sure. The reason for these laws is because Hatfield is not the only person to have ever been hunted at the steps to a courthouse.

@bensoncheung2801 Год назад

Wow.

@tylerhonaker2544 10 месяцев назад

It was actually supposed to be transferred to Greenbrier county (where I am actually from) but for some reason it never was. When I found that out I knew his murder was a set up.

@soulnestahn114 Год назад

You know, I used to think "America's war on the poor" was a metaphor.

@Ronnet Год назад

@@Nigerian11 maybe true, maybe not. Wealth is very unequally distributed in the USA. But whether he's part of the have's or the have nots, we can all agree that even today unions are being squashed by the elites. Just look up today's story about Starbucks firing those that attempted to unionize.

@EvelynNdenial Год назад

Class war isn't some esoteric metaphor, it's our everyday reality. And only when we decide to fight back is it so plainly visible as it was at Blair mountain, but regardless it's still ongoing all the time.

@CABRALFAN27 Год назад

@@Nigerian11 What's your point?

@joaquinvideo2959 Год назад

@@Nigerian11 okay, yes America definitely is why my MEXICAN side of family is well of, definitely not luck or hard work nooo it's all because of America psh, and the side of my family who have been living in America are totally rich not poor at all, we can always afford bottled water and we definitely eat things besides ramen

@joaquinvideo2959 Год назад

@@Nigerian11 my great grandpa betted my Nana into slavery so she illegally fled to America, my other side of the family works pretty hard too it's just there not payed a lot despite there hard work

@Monkey_SK Год назад

As a non American, it is videos like this that give you an insight into how the US has such a complicated history around government and law enforcement. Even gun control which would seem to be left over from the defence against the British. Seems to link into periods like this far more, where people need to protect themselves against their state leaders and government, just to get their basic rights.

@sethmiller2532 Год назад

It's one key reason why leftists, perhaps especially in America, oppose gun control. Marx even said that any and all attempts at disarming the workers must be thwarted, otherwise we have literally no power. We are subject to violence without hesitation, and that's with the knowledge that we're armed. If we weren't armed the violence against us would be greater by orders of magnitude.

@ntfoperative9432 Год назад

Foreigners seem to not realize how much the second amendment has done for this country, just like the first. It's actually because of the second that the first still stands

@EthanPerales. Год назад

Hey bud this ain't just in the past, do not see the end clip? Coal miners are getting diseases in the mining companies aren't doing anything to compensate or prevent

@DSiren Год назад

the 2nd Amendment is for protection against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It would come as no surprise that the gun control laws that restrict machineguns, require you to not have a criminal history to own a gun, and requires a license to distribute firearms came shortly after the events of blair mountain. Gun control has always been about oppressing people and preventing the organization of unions, it's just the first Gun control targeted slave revolts.

@leifretzer4939 Год назад

Could you imagine how many people would have died if the miners wernt armed? Guns are absolutely imperative to a free America. America is just an amalgamation of early 1900s European capitalism. Guns keep them in check. That's why the news pits the working class against each other in this country because we will band together to kick their doors in if they don't

@kennyroberts9687 Год назад

"Don't scab for the bosses, Don't listen to their lies! Us poor folk haven't got a chance, unless we organize! WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?!"

@FloridianRat Год назад

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON

@Munchkino 2 месяца назад

Yeah that song fits real well here

@kadenyt6623 Месяц назад

@@FloridianRat the corps side

@CollinMcLean Год назад

Holy crap how is this not talked about more in school?! It's like when I found out about the coup in Wilmington in my own state of North Carolina, how did we ever gloss over that?

@Tsuruchi_420 Год назад

You didn't learn about it cause when events like this happen again the government will take the same side as they did before, and it's not your side

@Akrafena Год назад

same, i didnt know that back in the colonial era, some militiamen mutined! in my county!

@IliyaMoroumetz Год назад

Because school was meant to create more factory workers and it never got the memo things changed.

@mc-ps-playa5569 Год назад

Hmmm why would the US school system want to bury the largest labor uprising in American history? Hmmmm really scrombles the brain.

@cyncialqueer1653 Год назад

Lol the US government teach it's slaves the power of Unions and civil disobedience like that'll ever happen, there's a reason you learn about MLK and not Malcolm X

@hgkghkhgkgh8378 Год назад

Fun Fact: General Bandholtz has a statue in Budapest, Hungary for preventing the Romanian military authorities from removing artefacts from the Hungarian National Museum.

@ritasallai152 Год назад

Hát ma is tanultam valamit.

@lemontv7883 Год назад

General Bandholtz was a very based man

@plackt Год назад

A very similar series of events played out in the gold mining town of Waihi, New Zealand in 1912. Fortunately there wasn’t nearly as much bloodshed, probably being a smaller country and population, but 10% of the country’s police force was sent to break the strike.

@PhoenixIsTrash Год назад

Most countries have their Blair Mountain, Australia had the Eureka Stockade and South Africa had the Rand Rebellion.

@alexcortes4892 Год назад

@@PhoenixIsTrash Las Bananeras in Colombia

@PhoenixIsTrash Год назад

@@alexcortes4892 one I'm not familiar with. Keen to look into it

@insertnamehere1258 Год назад

in the state of Maryland, we have the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in Baltimore

@CycloneSakura Год назад

I think a lot of folks know about the Harlan County "wars" here in Kentucky, which is why Harlan is sometimes known as "Bloody Harlan"

@reign0599 Год назад

“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” -George Orwell. Author, Socialist, and veteran of Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War.

@gustavofring5674 Год назад

Holy crap I never knew he served in the Spanish civil war

@Akrafena Год назад

@@gustavofring5674 callmeezekiel has video on that

@joewilson3575 Год назад

@@gustavofring5674 A lot of socialists did. A lot of British labour party politicians did and later served in the 45-51 government, unsurprisingly they're the only government in british history to actually change anything about how the country was run in a socialist fashion. If you didn't know the NHS, free school meals, most council houses and nationalised industry were all done by these people. Heroes to the working class, the same working class that was later betrayed by careerist labour politicians and of course Conservatives.

@ecurewitz Год назад

@@gustavofring5674 yup. He was also turned off by stalinists because of what happened in that war, though he still kept many socialist ideals the rest of his life

@foristrothbert568 Год назад

No one needs a gun. You have the police and government. What are you going to do, start killing people because you don't get you way? That's terroristic talk.

@daltonkanton1101 Год назад

I live in this area. Coal is everything. It sucks because everywhere you look, things are manipulated by coal. I don’t know of a single person who doesn’t know someone who works in the coal mines. If anyone thinks that coal is basically gone, it is not.

@racsoleerf124 Год назад

I grew up near Glasgow in an area where there was a lot of coal, so when you were digging up dirt to plant something you would just stumble on some coal

@CollinMcLean 12 дней назад

Definitely not gone and to the communities where coal mining still occurs it is central to the community. Unfortunately with that comes greater leverage for the coal companies because they know they're the only game in town and like to use their status as "job creators" to extract good will of the people. Alpha Natural Resources for instance which tried to give it's execs millions dollar bonuses by terminating benefits of retired miners even as they were going through bankruptcy.

@instantimagination8163 Год назад

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life." -Preamble to the Industrial Workers of the World Constitution

@Akrafena Год назад

KAISERRIECH REFERENCE?

@HUNDmiau Год назад

@@Akrafena No, real world reference. The IWW is a real and growing industrial union in the english speaking world

@Akrafena Год назад

@@HUNDmiau nah your clearly a totalist in the american communist revolution

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Год назад

@@HUNDmiau I should know, as I'm a member. :)

@froglegstastebestsalted 6 месяцев назад

@Akrafena you can also be an IWW member it's for everyone

@handlessuckdick Год назад

Beautifully summarized. As a West Virginian, born and raised, it really makes me happy seeing this talked about and our state getting a little show in the spotlight.

@ethanwillis7369 Год назад

Amen

@BBQMountaineer 3 месяца назад

Absolutely. We do have very interesting history here.

@DavidJamesHenry Год назад

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn! We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong!

@Shadowreaper5 Год назад

Corporations are not your friend and do not care about you. This is not an inflammatory statement. This is fact. Anyone who works any part of retail or food service (customer service, warehouse, janitorial, etc) can back me up on this. Especially during the pandemic when corporate office decided they wanted workers to work harder and longer in conditions more likely to get covid, sometimes without even adequate protection, with little to no pay compensation for the increased risk. The method of starting a union is also obfuscated and unclear

@Shadowreaper5 Год назад

When I worked for Advance Auto Parts I wanted to start a union for our workers. Yes, you read right, auto parts workers don't have a union. I could not find a government site telling how to start a union and the nearest union for retail workers of any kind was in another state, and when I contacted them about it, I was met with chilly reception.

@Melody-Pines Год назад

@@Shadowreaper5 do you mind if I ask from what state are you from?

@Shadowreaper5 Год назад

@@Melody-Pines I was working in Alabama at the time

@cableguygitrdone Год назад

If you guys do another series about coal strikes, I'd like to see one about the 1989 Pittston strike where the company unsuccessfully tried to take away benefits from the miners. This series inspired me to research the 89 strike and ask my mom about stories she had since she took part.

@sethmiller2532 Год назад

And the Battle of Athens, TN, as well!

@Salem_Rabbit Год назад

I work as a medical coder and I always wondered what UMWA was. Working for Florida you won't know much until someone tells you.

@mearehobo3459 Год назад

Born and Raised Proud Hillbilly Mudfork ,Verdunville, Hedgeview ,MATHIS Logan, West Virginia

@jonjohns8145 Год назад

God forbid Hollywood make a Movie or TV series about this. No, let's just do another Remake of some candy ass show/movie for the 100th time.

@wizard680 Год назад

PBS has a film on it called the mine wars

@dominicguye8058 Год назад

@@wizard680 PBS is not Hollywood

@juancarlos-uv4lh Год назад

big corpo has a grasp of hollywood

@kinghunternick1365 Год назад

The saying "gun rights are workers rights" really hits the mark here

@thomasjetzer2823 Год назад

Except the guns they had did them no good. The army has better guns, won the fight and the workers were punished for the armed uprising. Paradoxically their situation would have been better had they not had guns.

@kruesae22 Год назад

@@thomasjetzer2823 please don't confuse our American friends.

@craniumtea5137 Год назад

@@thomasjetzer2823 they would still have got shot or charged at by cavalry

@Crazy-pl1lo Год назад

@@thomasjetzer2823 actually it wasn’t a fact that the guns where “better” but it’s literally there job as soldiers to know how to fight, miners well… mine….

@scottanos9981 Год назад

Leftists seething in the replies 😂

@AubriGryphon Год назад

Bill Blizzard is a fantastic name.

@extrahistory Год назад

We're kinda jealous too!

@elvinbi1367 Год назад

true

@subira8518 Год назад

Not as great as John Johnson

@elvinbi1367 Год назад

@@subira8518 try tru tru, but think about it

@noyes4968 Год назад

@@subira8518 both are badass

@garethowen8730 Год назад

Sid Hatfield a true working class hero and the miners that made a stand.

@Rose-vb4wk Год назад

the miners lost - not because of the use of planes, or the backing of the state, or the attacks of assassins and hitmen - but because they didnt realise the power they truly held. leadership buckled when the national government threatened to get involved, cripling the movement and forcing new, inexperienced leaders to arise in their place. when the military arrived, the miners thought it beneficial to make concessions instead of continuing the struggle, giving them the short end of the stick. in reality, the organised working class is the most powerful force on earth. and we have a world to win!

@hellomynameisjoao Год назад

It would have been significantly worse for them if they kept fighting

@Demicleas Год назад

@@hellomynameisjoao at least they would of died free instead of living as corporate slaves. Death is preferable to slavary. Those that rebelled in lousiana after the failed uprising in lousiana lead to every slaves head lining the roads to New Orleans. They knew what there fate would be and yet they still tried to free themselves.

@Tsuruchi_420 Год назад

Yeah, one of the reasons socialism is important to any workers movement is because it insists that the fight for workers rights is never done until both the state and business we have ties to are owned by us, demobilizing in the face of threats is rarely the right answer

@ThatCamel104 Год назад

@@hellomynameisjoao Why?

@bobbyferg9173 Год назад

Many wouldn’t consider this a loss but a Pyrrhic victory as while many lost their lives and coal unions suffered in numbers, awareness of the battle and message of workers rights spread across the nation. It has been said to inspire many other unions who eventually did get big victories and the fact we are talking about it today shows that their message still lives on

@U.F.R.G Год назад

I watched the first part today and I couldn't wait for the next part but I didnat expect it to be today I knew about this very and important event in US worker history and ime glad you guys are giving it the attention it deserves

@DavidJamesHenry Год назад

When the union's inspiration through the worker's blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the Sun Yet what force on Earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one? But the union makes us strong!

@evanlucas8914 Год назад

Remember this wasn't the only bit of anti union vs union violence there was. The Pittsburgh rail strike of 1877 descended into violence that left 40 people dead and roving sporadic gun battles through the streets of Pittsburgh.

@varnull6120 Год назад

Thanks for making this video. We have brave men and women like the miners who fought at Blair Mountain to thank for our rights, moreso than any war. Solidarity forever.

@drakewalker3815 Год назад

Rest in peace, you glorious men. Coming from a mining family, stories like Blair Mountain really speak to me. Thank you, EC.

@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Год назад

Remember, folks: the bourgeois talk a nice game, but at the end of the day they will do anything and everything to break your will for their profit. Sometimes, it only takes picket signs...and other times, it takes rifles.

@Tsuruchi_420 Год назад

And it worked so well in the US that mega corps like Amazon and apple are only now starting to have unionized workers, the rich are too powerful to he allowed to exist

@jonesaffrou6014 Год назад

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary"

@jorenvanderark3567 Год назад

Kindly attribute the quote.

@jonesaffrou6014 Год назад

@@jorenvanderark3567 Karl Marx

@scadoodlemusic3682 Год назад

I’m so happy to see y’all doing this series. As a southerner who has long watched an oppressed working class struggle here and being descended from coal miners in Tennessee it’s cool seeing someone talk about this stuff

@Perkyguy Год назад

I really dont see how hiring and maintaining a private army, paying for bombing airraids, numerous bribes, assasins and all other forms of containment - on top of having their mining operations come to a complete halt for however long this lasted - is somehow more profitable than raising the miners' salaries.

@mistaidgaf9166 Год назад

Need to more about Hatfield and the Hatfield/McCoys

@CrazyJaketheTerrible Год назад

This is an excellent topic, and an excellent episode! Maybe the Colorado Coal Wars next? 😉

@mohamedalshehri5535 Год назад

This was an unexpected topic but a welcome one

@madisons2117 9 месяцев назад

Remember that time a company used machine guns against their employees? Remember that time your boss told you that we are one big happy family here?

@jackiecooper9439 Год назад

The US has gr8 labour history. Nice to see its resurgence.

@05Matz Год назад

We all owe so much to the sacrifices of the workers of the past, both successful and unsuccessful. We must never forget, and we must measure our own actions to their standards, to continue to advance people's rights and not allow what they won with their blood to be taken away again.

@twenty-fifth420 Год назад

Last time I was here this early after I rung the bell, I think the ‘Palagra’ Episode made me realize I became more of a history nerd then a gaming nerd. LETSGO!!!!💕

@ains2904 Год назад

Imagine bringing an armed bomb to court and being like " your honor it was self defense, they were trying to throw THIS at me!" As you slap it on the table

@dedreik9982 Год назад

Solid defense

@jameskarg3240 7 месяцев назад

These days youd be INSTANTLY shot dead for even ATTEMPTING that, dud or not

@TheSci-fiAnarchist42 Год назад

Rest in peace to the heroes of Blair Mountain. Soon our time will come. All power to the workers! We have nothing to lose but our chains! ✊🛠

@scottanos9981 Год назад

Never give up your guns!

@Tsuruchi_420 Год назад

Mfw There's no sickle emoji

@HungryLoki Год назад

@@Tsuruchi_420 Here you go: ☭

@ArkadiBolschek Год назад

This is the history that American people need to learn about. Good job, EH 👍👍👍

@jamesboyle6134 Год назад

Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Don't scab for the Bosses Don't listen to their lies Us poor folks haven't got a chance Unless we organise!

@doctordoc2351 Год назад

They say in Harlan county, there are no neutrals there... Excellent video.

@adambishop7699 Год назад

Which side are you on?

@Hobbyrepubliken Год назад

@@adambishop7699 🚩

@stephenbaker9645 Год назад

@@adambishop7699 Nobody's. I chose to stay neutral because I did not want to have anything to do regarding both sides. If I fight the ocean, eventually I will drown.

@SpoopySquid Год назад

@@stephenbaker9645 the Enlightened Centrist has logged on

@xx_the_bean_gamers69_xx21 Год назад

[Verse 1] Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might! Don't cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing if you have no rights! Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires fall! Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless enjoyed by one and all [Chorus] So come brothers and sisters For the struggle carries on The Internationale Unites the world in song So comrades, come rally For this is the time and place! The international ideal Unites the human race [Verse 2] Let no one build walls to divide us Walls of hatred nor walls of stone Come greet the dawn and stand beside us We'll live together or we'll die alone In our world poisoned by exploitation Those who have taken, now they must give! And end the vanity of nations We've but one Earth on which to live [Chorus] So come brothers and sisters For the struggle carries on The Internationale Unites the world in song So comrades, come rally For this is the time and place! The international ideal Unites the human race [Verse 3] And so begins the final drama In the streets and in the fields We stand unbowed before their armour We defy their guns and shields! When we fight, provoked by their aggression Let us be inspired by life and love For though they offer us concessions Change will not come from above! You might also like I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night Billy Bragg California Stars Billy Bragg and Wilco Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) Kate Bush [Chorus] So come brothers and sisters For the struggle carries on The Internationale Unites the world in song So comrades, come rally For this is the time and place! The international ideal Unites the human race

@twistedpixel756 Год назад

i cant tell which is better, the fact that you covered this hidden history, or that amazing ad transition.

@bomerdoomer69420 Год назад

Its clear that you put entire oceans of love into your videos

@scottabc72 Год назад

The struggles of the past cannot be forgotten especially when they are still so very relevant today.

@Malcadon Год назад

Though Nebula I got to see the video early, but I came here to finish the ending as I was experiencing some technician issues -- intermittent skipping. Otherwise, great video! More Americans *need* to know about the blood split trying to effect meaningful Labor Rights.

@Limrasson Год назад

The impeccable logic of "well if we plant the guns it will look like we were just defending ourselves! Us 7, agains those 3, one of whom ran away! And the wives are here too, but what do women know, right?"

@HungryLoki Год назад

Also, self-defense with tommyguns, yeah right.

@alenceon Год назад

Worker's rights! Solidarity forever!

@rrrr-xj6ll Год назад

Keep repeating your Communist nosense

@jakekaywell5972 Год назад

@@rrrr-xj6ll The Union makes us strong!

@rrrr-xj6ll Год назад

@@jakekaywell5972 ok but the Union should not have the right to stay in the property of the of the business men if he doesn't want it . I don't have any problem with people joining Unions

@jakekaywell5972 Год назад

@@rrrr-xj6ll The capital owner is forced to negotiate since he can't access his means of production. Saying the union shouldn't do this is like removing a fish from water.

@rrrr-xj6ll Год назад

@@jakekaywell5972 I am sorry you don't have the right to be in some body else's property with out his consent

@gigaus0 Год назад

For those who are unaware of the status of the Unions in the US, a small update: January 16 in 2022, workers at Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market went on strike for a $1 raise and nothing more. They were rejected and went on strike under the guidlines set by the law. In response, NCPD was called in to arrest en mass due to the workers being declared Essential Workers in 2021. Between S.747 and four other bills that year, Essential Workers were given the same Statute as Federal Employees; This expressly means they are forbidden to strike under majority circumstances. Including not being paid, as they were in 2019. Previously, what was considered Emergency Services roles, at 50% of the US workforce, is now lumped in with another 30% of the work force in being called Essential Workers, at 80%. Meaning? 8 out of 10 workers are legally not allowed to strike, even if there is a statute in a Collective Bargaining agreement. Plainly, Striking is illegal in the US. And three of the major Unions are planning a strike around the idea of 'filling the jails' as these men did. That, is the state of Unions in the US; Under constant threat of jail, and non-payment.

@Airgialla32 Год назад

"My daddy was a miner, and I'm a miner's son. And I'll stick with the union until the day is done."

@comradeconnolly4538 Год назад

It’s not the “Matewan massacre” it’s the Battle of Matewan. The side that was “massacred” was well-armed and instigated the battle. It was a skirmish, or battle that the workers won, so the corporate media dubbed it as a “massacre” but it was nothing of the sort.

@blakecampbell6549 3 месяца назад

Man it is a good thing major corporations don't have that power anymore. Imagine what they could have done in today's time? They might have every mom and pop shop closed due to an emergency, but get a special exemption from the government to remain open. That would be wild right?

@chrisjones5949 Год назад

♫ Sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don't you call me, I can't go... I owe my soul to the company store ♪

@mavericktitan7874 Год назад

Anyone else completely dumbfounded and sickened that they didn't learn about this in public school history classes?

@gnranger Год назад

That would be by design.

@Michigan_npc 4 месяца назад

I mean it's improving at least in my school we learned for about 2 days about the battle of Blair mountain and the whole situation

@nowhereman6019 Год назад

*"Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on?"*

@kadenyt6623 Месяц назад

the corps side "welcome to ancapitstan"

@informitas0117 Год назад

The US's worst nightmare - fair conditions.

@b4ushoutxyz_66 9 месяцев назад

I really hope they do an episode on the battle of Athens Tennesse 1946

@princeps6241 Год назад

As a West Virginian, this hits home. Our state is impoverished and has essentially been ruined as a result of coal companies. Reason being is that the overemphasis on coal still being what WV is all about, and nothing more. No better paying or large businesses really ever take root here save for some retail. Industrial, manufacturing, etc. is very scarce, and obviously we don’t really have the right land for agriculture. I love my home state and miss it dearly, as I’m in the military, and I can’t wait to get back there and help it as much as I can.

@Numba003 Год назад

Man, I wish this one was more than just two episodes. This is crazy stuff. Thank you for the video. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

@AbdulBasit-du2hs Год назад

i am glad to see that this channel is showing people that how exploitive the 20th century Capitalist class was in America

@OutbackCatgirl Год назад

And remain to this day, with all the insidious subtlety of a sub minimum wage while ceos rake in more money than they can literally *lose* in a lifetime.

@Tsuruchi_420 Год назад

@@OutbackCatgirl also, it's a lot of the 20th century capitalists sons and grandsons who run the show now

@ThatCamel104 Год назад

Was?

@AbdulBasit-du2hs Год назад

@@ThatCamel104 i meant for that century ofc i know that they are exploitive even today

@Montananmooselover Год назад

These are like vacations they only happen so often but my god when they do you will be so relived.

@philtkaswahl2124 Год назад

Strikebreakers are still being used to this day in the US. They may not be quite as blatantly and openly violent as back then, but they still exist and many still use scummy methods and intimidation.

@rrrr-xj6ll Год назад

If you don't like it change your job

@LadyZeldaia Год назад

@@rrrr-xj6ll you are really one extremly sad and disgusting human

@rrrr-xj6ll Год назад

@@LadyZeldaia Are you describing your self?

@footisman2059 Год назад

@@rrrr-xj6ll Fun fact: Changing the job doesnt actually solve any problems.

@joshuaa7266 Год назад

@@rrrr-xj6ll If the only option is to change jobs, what happens when other companies realize they can get away with exploiting their employees and start following their example?

@AndrewLemmings1998 5 месяцев назад

This happened just 1 hours ago away from where I grew up, Ashland KY. I live in Sacramento, CA now. But I always get excited when I see the area where I come from talked about by bigger accounts and news media since you don’t hear about it that often, in fact, pretty rarely.

@dr.pp1236 Год назад

The American Revolution has been strangled in it's infancy every time, but the fire cannot burn out until every worker is free to form their own fate

@H9092-2 Год назад

Solidarity Forever!

@Melody-Pines Год назад

Solidarity for the working class! 🟥

@MaJieMao Год назад

Corporations would happily go back to these tactics again if people don't stand against them.

@tomaszkietyka2325 Год назад

Unions help you realise your power as a worker. Support your local unions, and join one if you can.

@xtransxcorex Год назад

🎶🎶which side are you on, which side are you on🎶🎶

@jeremy1860 Год назад

Kudos to you for bringing an event like this to my attention. I doubt I'd have heard of it otherwise 🤔

@Melody-Pines Год назад

The Goverment will never teach this in the School Sytem..

@sircoloniser5454 Год назад

In before anyone can watch the whole video As I’m early let me make a joke Woodrow Wilson was a good president

@amhuman5138 Год назад

I hope they do a series about the battle of Athens next.

@raphaelalexandreyensen6291 Год назад

thank you for covering this topic!

@Bariom_dome Год назад

I just wanted to say again that all your intros give the strongest goosebumps of excitement. Like the prelude to an epic story

@SpoopySquid Год назад

Don't scab for the bosses Don't listen to their lies Us poor folk haven't got a chance Unless we organise

@javieraravena5345 Год назад

The struggle remind me of the conflict between the Saltpeter companies and their miners in northern Chile during the 1890s to the 1920s. The miners were paid not in cash, but in coupons that they could use to buy stuff in the company owned stores at the mining towns. Strikes and such usually ended in the army been called in and it didn't end as peacefully as when the federal troops got involved here. The main example is the Santa Maria School Massacre, where a large group of miners and their families gathered in said school on the city of Valparaiso. Army showed up and placing machineguns in front of the school, ordered the strikers to go back to the mining towns. They all refused. Of note is that there weren't only chilean miners, but inmigrants too, including of neighbouring nations Peru and Bolivia. The bolivian consul in the city actually asked his compatriots to go back uo because he knew the army would shoot. The response was "With the chileans we lived, with the chileans we will die". Die they did, since the shooting that followed ended up with over 2000 dead workers, the strike dispersed and the survivors rounded up and sent to the mines again. It crushed unions for decades. The general in charge got a medal for "keeping the peace". Worse is that 2 decades later the industry colapsed anyways, due to the double hit that was artificial saltpeter and the Crash of 29

@ghiorghetatarescu3649 Год назад

I ve waited for a good video on this for a while, thank you

@mosin_boi Год назад

Chaveri, you need to do a video on the battle of Athens in Tennessee. There were several cases of American revolts since the Civil War and they all need to be remembered. Athens Tennessee was screwing over the people and veterans and the veterans returned the favor.

@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Год назад

The unsung heroes. RIP!

@edstahl9802 9 месяцев назад

I have no love for Unions, but it's nice to get the other side of the story. Thank you, Extra History!! Five Stars!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@sethparker7971 Год назад

Any chance y'all would be interested in doing the 1913 copper country strike?

@Davidthestratman7 6 месяцев назад

This needs to be a movie

@etienned.f.4562 Год назад

It has to be said, I'm sorry - this right here is exactly what the Second Amendment is meant for; not what the far-right thinks they are for and not what the moderates claim they are. It will never not be important for Americans to be able to fight for their rights like this - now, we just need to learn to remember what these men actually fought for and make sure we aren't losing it again.

@Dumbleshroom Год назад

Could you guys do a series on the IBEW? I'd love to see my union get some shine as well. Henry Miller himself was a great founder and Union Organizer

@EpicGamer8633R Год назад

This is just all crazy mostly on how it was legal

@joshuathompson948 Год назад

Never knew west Virginia had a dark history

@Jacob-fo1yl Год назад

To people reading this, the events in the video are no fiction. Corporations and others with wealth WILL act similarly when push comes to shove. Let's get em first. Line the walls of king's landing with the heads of those who'd sacrifice the rest for their greed.

@GallerySpecter Год назад

While for the most part protests and nonviolent resistance are effective, it still pays to remind the people at the top that they bleed just as well as anyone else when they push things too far. And if they shoot first, it stains nobody's soul to return the favor.

@mambojambo4717 Год назад

Workers need to be armed.

@stevencooper4422 Год назад

Why else do you think the government wants as many gun restrictions as possible?

@Melody-Pines Год назад

Sun-Yat Sen personal hero of mine

@Bael_KnightMage Год назад

The literal representation of conflict of interest between workers wanting fair treatment and corporations wanting exploitation.

@Greenman-io7pr Год назад

Welcome to class struggle since time immemorial

@a.h.s.3006 Год назад

This short series is unbelievable, insane, and just disgusting. It shows the US to having been closer to 1984 before it was even written. How is it that companies are allowed to have armed agents who can shoot at their own employees? And what would have happened if they did not surrender to the army and kept fighting? Madness!!

@Melody-Pines Год назад

That's my fellow friend why many of us consider ourselves socialist and continuly support our working class for a better future

@lostlegion6366 8 месяцев назад

As a relative of Don Chafin, I feel happy to have a part of history like that in my family but a bit torn over the fact he was on the wrong side of the conflict