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Today in 1886
The New York Times declares the struggle for an eight-hour workday to be “un-American” and calls public demonstrations for the shorter hours “Labor disturbances brought about by foreigners.” Other publications declare that an eight-hour workday would bring about “loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery and drunkenness.” 
~ Labor Tribune

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Plutocrat Predicts: The Pitchforks Are Coming
Posted On: Sep 15, 2014
Sept. 15, 2014 | INEQUALITY | You know things have gotten bad when a self-proclaimed plutocrat sees the future and doesn’t like what he sees. Speaking to other plutocrats, Nick Hanauer tells some serious truth. Starting off by saying he’s a proud unapologetic Capitalist, he provides some history of his business acumen and wealth accumulation. He and some friends even own a bank. He’s been “rewarded obscenely for that with a life none of you can even imagine.” What he sees in the future is troubling: angry mobs with pitchforks. The problem, he says isn’t just inequality…[it is] that inequality is at record highs and is getting worse. Full story here.
 
 
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