The U.S. Government is a Machine Oppressing the Working …

The socialist leader Eugene Debs said of the Molly Maguires: "The men who perished upon the scaffold as felons were labor leaders, the first martyrs of the class struggle in the United States." This drawing of the 1877 rail strike appeared in Harpers Weekly. It shows the Sixth Regiment in Baltimore attacking strikers, who are defending themselves. ................
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