The Molly Maguires and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Setting the Stage for the Haymarket Riot

Partial and incomplete draft, see (link)

Franklin Benjamin Gowen

We should start with the villain first this time since he is such a central figure in much of the event as owner of… just about everything; the Reading Railroad, the mines, the private security force, he is also the District Attorney, which means he is the person who determines what crimes are taken to trial and under what charges, means he also owns the court. Anytime you see a single person with this much under his thumb the face is just a trick, humanizing the system is part of the psychological Class war.

First and foremost, anyone named after a fake founding father is not on the same side as the Peasant workers.

He branches out into other Industrialist projects as well. Gowen formed the Coal and Iron Police, a private security firm. He was also part owner of the canals and coal mines.

Gowen also set the stage for the headliner, RR Strike of 77, with a warm-up act featuring the Molly Macguires, an Irish domestic-terrorist group that plagued the worker camps and destroyed mine owners property in the 2-3 years time before the Nationwide Strike would take place.

Gowen was in charge of the case that climaxed with the mock executions of over 20 people, known as the Molly Macguires. The fake public executions would become part of the Main Event, climaxing with the hangings of the Anarchist and Solicalist leaders during the Haymarket Event

He also cross examined Rockefeller during the Standard Oil Trust lawsuit. He died while pursuing this case, not so much “died” as he was found dead in 1889 in a Washington D.C. hotel bedroom with a bullet in his head and a gun by his side. It was ruled a suicide but maybe it was supposed to be an intimidation thing like he was killed for bring Rockefeller to trial but the trial was bogus, he skipped town to throw the whole thing off, they were on the same side.

Franklin Gowen, whose death in a Washington D.C. hotel room in December 1889 was characterized by the owner of the hotel where the body was ‘found’, the Pinkerton detective in charge, and Franklin’s nephew and business partner all agreed it was suicide. The Washington coroner, who had been out of town at the time, went along with the conclusion of the other three men and pronounced Gowen’s death a suicide.

Here is a link about a guy that wrote the official cover story, he admits to having a personal interest in the story bc his ancestor was a Mollie hung by Gowen, really what it shows is how familial connections still protect the narrative generations later. His point is it was a revenge killing from the MM case and doesn’t even mention the precedent-setting Anti-trust case going on at the time.

I read the exhausting preview of the book, he has a hard time dumbing himself down to the point of creating a narrative to fit his angle. Its pretty bad.

Gowen’s death occurred on a Friday the 13th, the media outlet, Evening Star had exclusive rights which all subsequent reports were based from, not exactly an independent media. it read in part:

*WARNING: THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT*

GOWEN’S SUICIDE.

He is Found Dead in His Room at Wormley’s

BULLET WOUND IN HIS HEAD

Various Rumors as to the Cause of the Fatal Act

Franklin B. Gowen of Philadelphia. formerly president of the Reading Railroad company, was found dead in his room at Wormley’s hotel at about 1 o’clock this afternoon with a bullet wound through his head.

He [Wormley] found the body of Mr. Gowen lying on the floor with his head under the table. The dead man had evidently stood up before the mirror and fired the fatal shot. The pistol was a Smith and Wesson, thirty-eight caliber, brand new. It lay on the hearth several feet from the body. Its ivory handle was crimsoned with blood. The dead man was very well dressed and his coat and underwear were soaked in blood. Through the wound in the head the brains were oozing. The body was cold, showing that death had taken place several hours ago – probably before last midnight.

Mollie Maguires

Allen Pinkerton is a fictional Capitalist construct to be both the bad guy and the superhero that saves the city. Every case he is associated with is a project.

The Mollies ran a string of domestic terror incidents for years before culmination of celebrated staged-executions. The terrorist plots usually involved the murder of some RR or mining authority and the destruction of Company property, this serves to get the target to identify with the ‘bad’ guy. The ‘Robyn Hood’ archetype.

The years between 1863 and 1879 were years of violence, labor unrest, sabotage, and assassination in coal region. “Black Thursday”, June 21, 1877, saw ten Irish-Catholic miners, convicted of the murders of various mine officials, hanged for their crimes and for their membership in the secret order known as the Molly Macguires. ’77 was the year of the Socialist coup disguised as a railroad strike, it started in PA coal country.

The first mention I could find was Jan 13, (1/13=333) 1848. Molly Macguire associated with broad daylight slaying of landlord, Major Mahon (another double M), leading to the ‘Irish Arms Bill’. This shows the Molly’s were used for the same potential-threat false flag terrorism before they emigrated to Pennsyl-tucky coal mines. They were never real in Erin or in the US, at least not like portrayed in the media, like the terrorist orgs today that are run by military intelligence but still have their useful idiots that really believe the ideology.

Since 1862 the Mollies had been blamed for numerous murders, beatings, knifings, armed robberies, and incidents of arson. It was coal-mining country, a rough part of the world suffering from the effects called a ‘reign of terror’ orchestrated by a shadowy organization dubbed the Molly Maguires. (Double Ms are a thing, as in Marilyn Monroe/Manson, rotate 90* and you get 33)

On October 27, 1873,  Pinkerton McParlan was sent in under the name James McKenna a charismatic character set to infiltrate the gang by joining however he could bullshit his way. McKenna is one of the premiere spook family names. Anything this name is attached to takes all doubt away from its nature.

*It is appropriate that one of our sources of info for the Molly’s is a Pollock. The are like-Mckenna’s Anytime a pollack is around the cover has already been blow. In any variation, it doesn’t matter for either Mckenna, McKenney, McKenna, along with Pollack, Paddock, Pollard. Its the enunciated syllables that are important, like Ba’al, or Bel… language-based spellcraft. Wow, so after reading the fist page Pollack is claimed the Mollys never existed but were invented by the industrialists. He beat me to the punch but these fuckers never tell the truth so lets see what the angle is. If its from a pollack its probs pretty subtle, these people have been doing this for centuries.

“By inventing this organization, the employers hoped to quash a budding unionization movement among their disgruntled work forces. In their conspiracy against the labor-organizing coal miners, the operators engaged such disparate allies as a detective agency, the commercial newspapers, the state judicial system, and the Catholic Church.”

Normie Historian

Immigrants to the coal region in the early-mid 1800’s would’ve been among the first of the repopulation, the infrastructure was already set up for the most part, though most was destroyed and had to be repaired. There was massive unrest at this time in the UK as they weren’t through their own Reset spasms. Much of Europe was in ruins, the orphans were told the last generation had been through labor struggles dealing with new technology and orchestrated mass-migration events, such as the busted ass potato famine, which is the excuse of about 95% of the people here in the coal mine region of Western PA. What they thought they were leaving over the pond as far as slave quality of life they found here in America too with the Industrialist/Capitalist Inheritor Class.

Ancient Order of Hibernians (A.O.H.)

The Irish turned to a secret society known as the Ancient Order of Hibernians (A.O.H.) for protection. Violence erupted in 1863 as Irish laborers rioted in opposition to the new federal draft laws, and then extended their protests to demand better working conditions and wages. Periodically violence erupted over the next sixteen years. Many blamed the Molly Macguires, a radical faction of the A.O.H. named after a violent group of protesters who had roamed the Irish countryside fighting anti-Catholic persecution were blamed. AOH was the oldest Irish Catholic org in America, oldest reference to Andrew Jackson, Jackson was a fake founding father, that means there aint nothing ‘Ancient’ about these cats. They ran in opposition to the Orange Party, Orange is a trigger, the only word that doesn’t rhyme and 33 in numerology, it is frequently used by the Freemasons. it was founded in New York City in 1836, however, a reference to its existence as early as 1819 was found in a letter written from a Samuel Castwell to the eventual 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson. In the letter, Jackson had been nominated for membership into Castwell’s Hibernian Society, people insert fake evidence like forged documents into the narrative to give themselves the street cred. Its also common for nor just a few fake letters but an entire history with break-away chapters and name changes, there was no ancient order, during the beginning of the mas migration/ Repopulation event (plague, famine…) a group was started and called themselves ancient but there is no direct connection. Any references to a time before this or outside America is lumped in together as ‘The Order’, The Order is a very different subject and whatever fractal pattern it assumes at any point in history, real or fabricated, is in regards to this ‘Order’, which does not limit itself to a location or ethnicity.

There was also the Hibernian Society from 1790, but didn’t last very long bc members became increasingly radical. Another one in Boston in 1737 formed the Charitable Irish Society. The AoH we will return to in a later essay; they have been maintaining the St Paddy’s Day Parade in NYC since the mid-1800’s.

Irish traditions of violent rural resistance such as the “White Boys,” the “Ribbonmen,” and the “Molly Macguires” often sprung up in the camps, usually pushed by the mine owners in order to flush out any real potential opposition

James McKenna

In October 1873, Gowen met in Philadelphia with Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton’s published account of the meeting depicts Gowen laying out in some detail the existence, background and nature of a criminal secret society called Mollie Macguires, transplanted from Ireland to the coal region of Pennsylvania. In case I forgot to tell you or you haven’t figured it out for yourself yet, Pinkerton is a fictional icon, his journals are the same as George Washington and John Smith. Fake AF.

Thats when McPharlen (or some variation thereof) was chosen to go in as McKenna. After reaching Pottsville in December 1873, he began to frequent the Sheridan House, a saloon run by ‘Big Pat’ Dormer. McKenna soon became a popular character around the bar, his “gift of gab”. In conversation, McKenna let it be known that he was wanted for murder and counterfeiting in Buffalo, New York. Sure, thats always a way to draw attn to yourself in a strange new town full of drunk Irishmen known for a murderous streak. He proved himself to be handy with his fists and soon gained a reputation among the rougher elements who drank at Dormer’s bar.

He won his way into the gang by besting a bareknuckle boxing champion over a poker game. Courtesy of McClures 1894 issue.

His standing was secured after the Coal & Iron Police, a private constabulary raised by Gowen and the mine owners and railroad operators to help protect their interests, arrested McKenna at the bar, interrogated him, and roughed him up. So he stages a confrontation with the cops to build street-cred.

Dormer himself was impressed with McKenna, and in February 1874 took him to the neighboring town of Shenandoah to meet fellow saloon-keeper Muff Lawler. With Lawler’s backing, McKenna got work at the Indian Ridge Shaft and later at the West Shenandoah Colliery. Lawler also introduced McKenna to John ‘Jack’ Kehoe. Kehoe ran the Hibernian House saloon in Girardville, an important Molly headquarters, and was a kingpin in the organization. McKenna soon received an invitation to a secret meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernian.

This claim right here is enough to call the whole game. The saloon keepers of the day would’ve certainly been on the mine owners payroll. Entertainment is somewhat limited in these parts, the saloon-keeper would have been privy to all information and especially when in control of the liquor tap. 2 months is awful fast for someone to go from fresh off the train with no contacts to being under the wing of the local resistance chapter. Dormer and Lawler would have been expecting someone to come in, either by advanced notice or bartenders intuition. This is also more self-validation for the Aoh that they are a credible organization. By 1874 the AoH are organizing the St. Paddy’s Parade, a military exercise, this means they would have been involved in other militant activities.

During McKenna’s description of his initiation into the Mollies he only says they made him swear to obey all unlawful orders and kept everything secret. This is the kind of bullshit they say to wide-eyed normies when about to deliver a doozy. It took less than 2 years for McKenna to reach the top rung of the gang.

Several highly publicized murders took place including that of Benjamin Yost, a police officer who beat up member Thomas Duffy; Welsh mine superintendent John P. Jones was killed for blacklisting strikers; Thomas Sanger, foreman of Heaton’s Colliery and miner William Uren had been gunned down two days earlier as they walked along an empty street to work. Sanger died because of an alleged workplace grievance, while Uren, who boarded with the Sanger family, was slain to eliminate him as a witness. (Sanger is one of the Hidden Hand families most noted for the Birth Control Pill and abortion rights fem radical Margaret)

Notice anything about the supposed victims and perps? They’re all from the same side, even though they pretend on the surface to be opponents, everyone works for the mines [Mine as in possessive, wordplay]

The Wiggans Patch Incident is a name given to one of those incidents that are as over the top violent as the scriptwriters can think of. A late-night knock on the local boarding house door signaled a vigilante raid which one molly was shot 18 times and set of fire, another hung and left for dead in the front lawn managed to survive, and a 9 month pregnant female shot in the belly and tits that also survived. This event is what convinced local leaders a snitch was present and is what sent McKenna running back to the city.

This was the grand finale to lead in to the mock trials and fake executions. I tried to push my way through this as best I could but the only sources are the Pinkerton archives and newspapers that arent any better, They read like a Western Dime Novel. There are many links available for anyone that wished to follow up on names or locations… Start with Kehoe’s own wife, who was related to the supposed victims at Wiggans Patch. Its all insider stuff.

Pottsville is chosen for the oppositional headquarters and the site where the fake hangings take place and with the WBA bc this is also where Gowen has his home and law practice, its all controlled opposition so naturally both sides are going to be strong in the same places.

To speed things up the result is another fake trial and fake hanging taking place on June 21st 1877… Right less than a month before the Great Strike. Crazy the coincidences, right? You can read all the details on Famous Trials webpage. (Anything on Famous Trials is a mock case)

Kehoe was grant full pardon in 1970, in part bc a movie was made about the ordeal which starred Sean Connery

The other reason is the individual agent, McParlan, He was also the one said to crack the assassination case of Idaho Gov Stu. This was the big fake case that Big Bill Haywood was accused of assassination, also involving dynamite.  

This means we can bet every case involving McParlans is manufactured and they are investigating their own crimes and pretending to catch a bad guy and fake execute them. . Sure, they did muscle and gun for hire but the celebrity cases are all theater. This case shows cooperation with the labor organizers and the opposition, both playing along in a big fat fake trial. 

I just noticed another recurring theme, the fake execution. John Brown, Lincoln assassins, Molly Macguires, Leo Frank

*Other notable names associated with the trial include Campbell, the combination of two agent provocateur families Camp and Bell; Albright; Powell; Morrison; Morse; McClain; Lewis; Green; Price; Hinkley; Howe; Williams; Marks (Marx)

John Morse published his account of the trials though it is unclear in what capacity he was involved, at least in the public eye. J. Morse is also the uncle of Lizzie Borden, the famous axe-welding rich bitch that supposedly slew her family and chopped them up with a hatchet. Hey, another hi-profile celeb mock trial and fake execution. [There are several John Morse cover-authors from this time, coincidence I’m Sure]

Media downloads

• Above is the most accurate portrayal of MM as of yet. It’s so because this is a cheap Dime Novel account that maybe only a child would consider non-fiction. The Pinkerton character and every one of his cases must have been scripted by the Pre-Comic Book action writers and passed of as genuine history. Looking through the lens provided by this article it is laughably obvious real-life cops and villians dont talk or behave like this. *Intro contains one of the few accounts of the formation in the Old Country, based on the ‘Robyn Hood’ archetype.
• History of industry, manufacturing, and commerce by Rand and Avery. Gatekeeper narrative of Indian and Colonial contributions, including construction of quarry’s, mines, railroads and canals. [Link] Source has multiple original docs between Pinkerton and Gowen. They are mostly receipts because Pinkerton exists as a legal fiction created by binding-contract magick, These recipts are the spells power source which is the same energy and concept of how fiat currency gets its value. Maritime admiralty law. Pirates.
• History of the Great Riots. The Molly case was the lead in to the 1877 RR Strike. Mollies connection to the railroad means they could serve as an intel group to branch out and help organize the strike. The fake executions provided cover for the agent provocateurs to go out with a new identity and untraceable background. If the Strike was green-lighted at the Philly Expo there should be a corresponding change in the molly cases, maybe the start of the trials, so it would be wrapped up in time. Gowen initiated the beginning with the announcement of further pay cuts, that was the signal. Book contains detailed narrative from 1877.

Fake Elections of 1876

Another layer of the Great Deception was the faux-elections of 1876, this was another blatent example that mockingly shove in the citizens face that there are no honest elections.

The VP was William Wheeler, a Pacific Railroad politican on Capital Hill. Wheeling WV was a headliner during the Strike of ’77. It’s all connected.

The election seasons are always a good time to up the division in America but sometimes they serve as more. The election of ’76 was so bad that the Prez wasn’t sworn in till ’77, under secrecy. This was one of the few admitted cases were the person that lost the election was sworn in as Prez. Hayes was installed by Industrialists, Railroad mongers, Banksters, collectively known as Capitalists.

There is a bunch of rhetoric for readers that get their rocks off sifting through volumes of bullshit but basically Hayes lost the election but some big wigs made the winning party an offer they couldnt refuse if they gave up the office.

The deal was supposedly a bail-out for a ton of money lost on a failed venture of Railroad construction… Thats like saying, “I lost all my money pumping oil.” It just doesn’t work like that. Plus, I mean, come on, there wasn’t any RR construction bc it was already here. I have to stick to the script in much of this to provide Normie timeline context.

Part of the agreement was the withdraw of troops from the South, thereby officially ending the Reconstruction Era. This is significant as well in Timeline context, they started up with the next incident of Civil unrest immediately after the withdraw of the soldiers. (Did you catch it? I just did too, the Reconstruction Era is a mocking play on words, they were literally rebuilding the ruins from the Reset. Like the Industrial Revolution is a revolution in the military sense, not allegorical.)

As complex and integrated as this illusion is, it helps to remember that much of the script is written later. In the case of the scandalous 1876 elections we find a Southern political historian in 1950’s that wrote a book reviewing the material and coining terms to compare to other similar incident of the Antebellum Period (Pre-Civil War)

The existence of an informal agreement to secure authority was long accepted as a part of American history. Its supposed terms were reviewed and revised by historian in the 1951 book Reunion and Reaction, which also coined the name in an effort to compare the political resolution of the election to the famous Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850. Criticism from other historians concede that the theory became almost universally accepted in the years after Woodward published Reunion and Reaction.

Ministry of Truth

Note the other subtle forms of manipulation like saying it was “long accepted” as history, and using the word ‘famous’ to describe events the guy just made up as part of the political buildup to the rise of the Working Class Stiff

Bear in mind at the time I am writing this so many of my fellow Peasants are falling for the whole Jan 6 insurrection narrative and after the 2020 fiasco how anyone could trust any election is beyond me. 1876 proves there is nothing new in D.C.

But Wait Theres More

So check this out, the site for the location where the compromise was reached was the Wormley Hotel. The Wormley was the same place that Gowen was discovered shot in the head.

The Hotel was demolished in 1906 and the Union Trust Company took over and built their headquarters. The Union Trust Company is a manifestation of the entity that was the fake Gowen suicide and Compromise. There is also a Union Trust Company in Pittsburgh that likes to act as separate and unconnected. The architecture alone tells the connection. Pittsburgh is a big player in this story.

The General Strike of 1877

Regurgitated Script

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was an early event which many of the contemporary projects stemmed from. It was also a chapter that bridges a before and an after event; the Mollies led into the Great Strike, and the Strike leads into Haymarket.

This chapter contains multiple elements from the French Revolution pt 1, 2, and 3, and the Bread and Roses Strike, was a product of the Philly World Fair Expo in ’76 . Its political association is Socialism/Communism but in essence its about the slave class rising up against the overlord tyrants. Maybe thats why we keep seeing this play out over and over, if they lead the revolution themselves it’s not really a revolution is it now, did you ever think of that? Well let me tell you this time they were successful, at least the chapter in St Louis, they were the recognized de-facto authority by hostile take over and they walked away and everyone on both sides acted like the whole thing never happened.

People, organizations, operations and movements all were born from this little understood event. Even this event is an illusion, a nation wide event was orchestrated in part to consolidate control of the railroad. The railroad is an ancient artifact, none of these people built it, they just inherited control and internal power struggles within factions would play out under the guise of a simple railroad strike. More than that is recycled script from the French Revolution, it was a successful Communist hostile takeover nobody even knows about it.

His-story whitewashes and sweeps under the rug the potential lessons society has to offer about itself. While it is remembered as simply a railroad strike, albeit recognized as one of the biggest, it is a RR strike nonetheless. What it really was was a successful highly organized Socialist coup d’état. All trades struck. Nationwide. Simultaneously. Right at the climax, at the peak of momentum the controlled opposition leadership intentionally stalled to give the Feds the time they needed to regroup, at which time the leaders turned their compound over without a shot being fired and walked away free men. 

Let me explain: The period after the civil war was pretty sucky for a lot of people, especially around 1871 with the ‘Great Fire”, I’m gonna tell you in case you hadn’t noticed yet, anything with the word ‘Great’ in the title has been a production. We haven’t gone off into that direction yet but the Great Fire was awfully convenient for a lot of people. All the Pinkerton’s records were destroyed for example, ironic since the headliner himself wasn’t even a flesh and bone person, and the International Harvester works lost all their old equipment. The works would play an important role later, the Haymarket Riot occurred here resulting in multiple deaths and a fake public execution.

In fact the General Strike was setting the stage of the Haymarket Event, putting all the right people in the right places

1873 there was further recession (soup kitchens, mass unemployment, pay cuts…) which was the result of railroad stock marketing manipulation, this time pet-named ‘The Great Panic’ of ‘73 that lasted for four years before finally coming to a head in ‘The Great Strike”. [rolls eyes, yeah, the stock market] *See also: Credit Mobilier Scandal- Ghost company created on paper to funnel govt construction fund money into private hands. That’s an inside joke among inheritors, there was no construction, so mismanagement and theft of construction funds is a real knee slapper. I dont mean absolute zero construction, they had to repair and reroute tracks. This period of open corruption is remembered as the Great Barbecue…penned by Agent Twain. Again. Twain’s lineage goes way back, his ancestors are even one of the fake saints, you never heard of Saint Clemens? Whats Twains name again? Thats right, Sam Clemens. Sammy is a twin, thats where the play on words comes in. More about him later but its worth mentioning anything associated with him is gonna be the same story, he even gave this one a cute little name… It even starts with the word Great for fux sake. Many ‘Greats’ and we haven’t even started yet; Great Fire, Great Upheaval, Great Barbecue, Great Strike… See what I mean about the word ‘Great’ yet?

 By 1877 workers were hungry. The railroad industry collapsed on paper but it was a corporate takeover, leaving the beginnings of the Gilded Class. Agent Twain coined that term too btw. As the story books go, near the end of July the people were sufficiently agitated to fight back. It is remembered as a Railroad strike, but it was not a railroad strike. All workers supported each other joined forces for the first and only time. All trades stood in solidarity, all races. It was a real revolution. A successful Marxist Socialist Revolution that’d been building up since the civil war, the worker was the new slave, as many people were about to find out first hand, the Civil War wasn’t about ending slavery, it was about evening the playing field.

Fighting stretched across the United States, form the East coast to the West. It kinda had to to get the federal status upgrade. In all cities with heavy resistance there is an organizing force, a proto union started by Marx and Co. to unite the common worker, this is that force. Marx is representative of a system, They just had two scripted episodes of the French Revolution play out to seemingly validate the new political theories. The Communist Manifesto was published with Marx’ name on it within days of the French Rev in 1848 and while the Paris Commune broke out as he had an official narrative history ready to pass out within days, that only happens so fast if it was sitting on a shelf. Whatever the details may be it is fishy to say the least. Marx had also started up the workers rights org, International Workers Association, which would play a central role in the strike and in the larger picture, organizing the labor force during the Industrial Revolution. We’ll get back to this later.

Most of the street fighting was done with a mercenary army. The feds were not as participant as history tells, it is the authority that is important. In each city a ‘Public Safety Commission’ was formed and authority bestowed and even sigils were used as anybody that could fight was fighting, whatever side you were on didn’t matter. Many were fighting on the same side. The vigilante peacekeepers were a mix that included many civil war (military trained) vets. That’s the takeaway, there was a heavy civilian ex-military element so the troops didn’t have to be there, yet, they would make a cameo appearance before it was all over with.

The for-profit professional soldiers like Blackwater were paid for by RR. A mix a volunteer and paid mercenary army, veterans of the Civil War and Indian Wars with nothing to do all day. 

Karl Marx was running the show from his European command center through his First International boots on the ground operatives. These are among the NWO Reset agents that disguise their own agendas with altruistic and philanthropic movements.  Later the Workmen’s Party would change its name to the National Socialist Party to avoid any snoopers making the connections.

Marx attended Philly World Fair Expo in 1876 along with organizers of International Workers, the Proto-Socialists and Unionists that lead the strike. This means it was a World Fair Project, a re-enactment of the French Revolution…which is all just fake-history anyway.

Newspapers of the times made mention of the presence of this group being in each venue but that was more like a Capitalist smear campaign and the involvement was never pursued. As if there was a real difference between the Capitalists, Socialists, and Railroad Syndicate. The papers only name-drop themselves for posterity

Marx’ comment “the first attack against the associate capital oligarchy… will of course be smashed, but it could serve as a beginning for the establishment of a serious labor party.” came not as a prediction or speculation, but foreknowledge and direct influence of the outcome of the fight itself. They never wanted change; this was a social experiment to test his political theories. Well not his you know; this was happening no matter who was there at the time. Marx is just a face given to ideas to make them easier to impose on the orphan class. It wasn’t really a theoretical test either, those came by way of the French Revolution.

 I see the insertion of race relations into the arena of the great RR strike that are a sign from modern times, as everything is geared toward racism. It always has been a racist, classist system but this has a modern flavor as historians try to whitewash the controlled opposition leaders and their groups, they have to acknowledge the racism of its base. Of course they’re racist. The researchers tend to overplay the significance of the role of blacks and promote white guilt. That being said, I don’t want to take away from the black experience. It deserves its own book as well but I would like to comment on the ppl that like to comment on how the blacks were treated. This is an attempt to hide Socialist racism. 

This is also see a pattern start to develop around ethnic groups. The labor organization of the future being grouped together by nationality and then having a representative speak on that group’s behalf. This might be the beginning of a new phase in history. With the supposed abolishion of slavery now there are new ethnic groups to throw in the mix. Decades of mass immigration/repopulation add a layer too, nationalities of every sort are grouped together by their own kind. Patriotism is a form of compartmentalization.

MartinsBurg

The catalyst happened in Martinsburg WV, and followed the rails across the nation in days . News that the B+O RR was cutting wages for the third time in a year prompted workers to walk off. Well they didn’t really walk off, railmen parked a train full of cattle and pulled the pins from the couplings so it could not be easily moved, where by now 75 trains with 1,200 cars of freight were backed up with no way of reaching their destination.

Strikers stuck around and when cheap labor scabs tried to take over the striking workers held their ground, effectively stopping the railway. A confrontation between a cop and a striker led to the mayor came in. He got booed off so he called for the state militia for back up.  

The Berkeley Light Infantry Guard, out of Wheeling, under Capt. Charles J. Faulkner Jr. marched to the scene. Faulkner declared he had done his duty, and his troops, according to Harper’s Weekly, “marched to their armory and ingloriously disbanded, leaving the rioters in possession of the field, and the road blocked up with standing trains on the sidings.” 

When the state militia showed up they sided with the strikers and refused to break the strike. Many of the militiamen were railroad workers, or relatives. They refused orders and took up with the workers. The Striker shot at a militia man who return fired and mortally wounded the first shooter, this caused the whole militia to stop fighting, many were family members. This is verbatim the same thing that happened in the French Revolution.

Communication transcript of officers

The complete chain of command had been involved from the local sheriff to the Prez of the US within one day.  

The next day news of the strike had spread and violent clashes with state militias and federal troops began popping up all the way westward. The Railroad is a vehicle for the transmission of information. The train was the fastest way to tell the next town it had begun. In many places the telegraph lines were cut and whoever controlled the railroad controlled communication.

That Martinsburg was ground zero was strategic, it was a major junction spot. News spread all along the B+O, that was the goal, to get it in as many places as fast as possible, From Baltimore to Cleveland was fighting and mass arson. Destruction of property, but it’s interesting the places that were destroyed like old wooden stations had been rebuilt as solid stone fortresses. This is a cover story to explain the existence of old world architecture, there never were any old wooden stations, the railroad appropriated the stone buildings and slapped a phony history on the side of the building. In all places workers of all trades came out to support the strikers. Completely outnumbered the state militias but that didn’t matter because the militia was joining the strikers. 

Reading, PA

READING. Pa., July 23.-The railroad troubles, which have created intense excitement in this city, culminated in a serious outbreak last night. Shortly after ten o’clock, upon the arrival of the last passenger train from Philadelphia, about 1,000 men followed after the train, from Seventh and Penn streets to the new passenger depot. Night trains were prevented from leaving the depot, and several hundred persons commenced the obstruction of the tracks of the Lebanon Valley Railroad leading to Harrisburg. Two cabooses were set on fire and an alarm of fire having been struck; the entire fire department responded. The firemen were prevented, however, by the crowd from extinguishing the flames, attention having been directed to the burning cars. The work of destruction was continued at other points along the road tearing up tracks, turning and blocking switches, and burning freight cars. A train of freight cars on the main track on Second street crossing was set on fire and five cars were totally consumed. The Lebanon Valley Railroad bridge, a magnificent structure, across the Schuylkill, costing over fifty thousand dollars, was fired at the western end shortly before midnight, and totally destroyed. At 1:35 A.M. all the span[unclear] had fallen into the river. The object in destroying the bridge is believed to have been to prevent the passage of troops through this city to Harrisburg and points on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

July 23.-The mob which has been tearing up the track here to-day came in contact with a portion of the Fourth Regiment shortly after seven o’clock this afternoon. The soldiers fired into the crowd, killing four and wounding several others.

-Several thousand persons assembled along the Reading Railroad this afternoon and stopped freight, coal and passenger trains, only permitting mail trains to proceed. At eight o’clock this evening seven companies of the Fourth regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, arrived and proceeded along the railroad to Penn street. While in the depot, extending two squares from Walnut to Penn street, the soldiers were assailed with stones and immediately began firing, it is alleged without orders, doing bad work among an immense concourse of peoples in the vicinity, among whom were many respectable citizens, as well as ladies and children. The troops fired down Seventh and up and down Penn streets.

Five persons are known killed and from eighteen to twenty-five wounded, several mortally wounded. Among the wounded are seven policemen, some seriously. Chief Callen had a narrow escape, having been shot in the breast, but a thick book turned the ball. The police were stationed along the railroad tracks, to preserve order and received the full fire of the military. A number of soldiers were knocked down by large stones thrown at them. Great excitement prevails to-night. The mob broke into the armory of the Reading Rifles and captured all their guns and sacked the gun stores. They threaten vengeance upon the military. – The killed and wounded reported is thirty. Seven were instantly killed. Fourteen soldiers were wounded.

The names of the killed and wounded include Weaver, Eisenhower, 2 Kissinger’s, Quinn and Clark among others. Theres no way this many prominent family members would be on this list unless they wanted to be.

A CHARGE BY THE COAL AND IRON POLICE.
In the depot the locomotive was seized by several persons in the crowd, while the platform was crowded by a dense throng. Passengers were notified not to get on the cars, and it appeared as though the train would not get out of the depot, and make the remainder of its trip. A squad of twelve officers of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company’s police, in charge of Capt. Alderson, who arrived from Pottsville at six o’clock, made a charge upon the crowd, armed with Spencer rifles and Navy carbines. They drove back the crowd for some distance, but afterwards retreated to the baggage room in the depot. During the melee, one of the police discharged his carbine, the ball penetrating the platform.

*The Coal and Iron Police were a private security force set up by F. Gowan, pres of the RR and Canals And everything. It seems like it was made just for the Strike

Pittsburgh Railyard Reset Ruins

At the time, all of this escalating violence so close to home, the Pittsburgh RR decided to reveal they plan to switch to a double headed train for efficiency, which means less workers required. It also means this is more dangerous and means less pay for workers that do stay on, so PA erupts into violence. So it’s pretended that the two are disconnected, the strike and the decision to switch to the more efficient method. You’d think the owners would keep their head down to avoid conflict, but no they do the opposite and provoke the crowd. The double headed train is a proxy anyway, they just needed something for the papers.  

So frequently was the state militia deserting to side with the workers it was decided in Pittsburgh to send in troops from Philly bc local boys were ineffective. Hostilities between Pittsburgh and Philly were so intense because of the grudge carried over from labor conflict. The Pittsburgh Workingmen’s chapter started by local Capitalists was shunned by the Philly chapter. The cities are associated by name only. During peace-time business deals, Philly was given preferential treatment.

At first there was no bloodshed in Pittsburgh, it was just Strikers refusing to allow trains through. In many cases all throughout the nationwide strike the mail cars were allowed to pass. The relatively peaceful situation changed when the Philly militia showed up and started killing people. (This is taken from the French Rev as well, when the local guard joined the ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters and King Phil had to call in reinforcements from outside Paris.)

After Philly opened up killing women and children Pittsburgh vowed revenge and set most of the city on fire. This merits further investigation. Philly had just hosted the first World Fair the year before, that’s where all this was drafted by the International Workingman Parties. 

The narrative goes something like this:

On July 21, as these troops faced a crowd that had gathered around the 28th street crossing near Liberty Ave., pistol shots rang out. To this day, no one is sure who fired first. In response, the militia shot into the crowd, killing more than 20 people.
Stunned strikers and onlookers dispersed, but the act ultimately ignited a fiery riot. By that evening and through July 22, thousands of people flooded city streets, clashing with the militia and each other. Fire destroyed more than 30 buildings, including the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Union Depot, and thousands of pieces of rolling stock, including locomotive engines and rail cars. Cannons were placed on bridges into Allegheny City to prevent the angry mob from crossing. By the time the violence began to subside, a large section of Pittsburgh lay in ruins.

The first u.s. Commissioner of Labor, Carroll Wright, wrote in 1906 that it was the rail owners that set fire to old property to collect insurance. The thing about Wright is, well, he’s a Wright. How do you think Carroll made the first Commissioner spot anyway? Hard work and good decision making?

I wont waste our time going into details of what supposedly happened back then, its all lies. The train yards were already in ruins and the Strike was invented bc they needed a way to make them appear fresh.

Look at the damage, this is the same imagery we find down south they blame the Civil War on and in Europe they use WW1. No, these are ancient ruins. Besides the fact that the whole scenario is the French Revolution and the official narrative comes from Harpers Weekly and Frank Leslies, who are nothing but cover story (con)artists. Look at the number symbolism; No. 13 on 31 St., No. 33 on 33 St. GTFOH.

Those are the photographic evidence, you can compare this to other sites everywhere on earth. Next, here is the sketched in narrative, which they need to come up with for the wage-slaves.

See also the Reading Massacre. Reading is a significant town in the future of labor organizing

Chicago

Chicago saw the most deaths out of all the cities. Most sources report between 18 and 33 workers dead with 13 dead cops. Rioters shot it out with police on the streets for 3 days. The numerical markers are all here right up front,

Right off the top we see the Agent Provocateurs are our good friends at the Michigan Central Railroad. They are the ones that kicked things off on July 25 they walked off the job. They had been running training exercises and practice drills for years just for this kind of event. The next morning complicit spook wartime propaganda rag Chicago Tribune runs the simple headline “IT’S HERE”. MCRR was involved in another railroad scam outside Detroit remembered as the Great Railroad Conspiracy… Anything with the word ‘Great’ … I got a paper written up about it.

The day before our boy Albert Parsons hypeman spoke at a rally in front of tens of thousands of immigrants he referred to as the ‘assembled Grand Army of Starvation’, mocking the Union as the Grand Army of the Republic. This call for organizing is supposedly what cost his job at the Tribune and got him fast tracked to the mayor’s office where 30 members of the Board of Trade threatened to hang him. Maybe they did stick a gun in his face on the way out the door but this meeting served as an information exchange for the coming events. It was a fake fall out for street cred, Parsons would be publicly hanged in the future for his role in the labor organizing, a fake hanging after a mock trial. This is the prelude for that freak show.

Parson’s wife, Lucy, would use the fake execution as a springboard to launch her social activism in the form of civil rights. All these characters have their own chapters that overlap right here, this event connects all of the people and orgs that branch out on their own. Remember what I said, if one goes down as a fake they all come down with it. You can’t build a solid narrative if the foundation is rotten.

Whatever was said at that meeting is unknown but Parsons kept himself unseen, and the rest of the Workingmens Party leadership went quiet. Tens-of-thousands of starving slave class workers went unorganized around the city destroying property. The mayor swears he gave the order to fire only blanks and over the workers heads (lol, sure he did) but as the crowds came closer the cops fired directly into the crowd.  More French Revolution script, when the first accidental shot went off and the whole army opened up on the crowd. Parsons was on the same side as the politicians and industrial capitalists, his job was only to whip the crowd up into a frenzy. The meeting he supposedly had with city management was probably he got a gold star for the day and a paycheck. As Agent Provocateur his work was over, that’s why he wasn’t seen again till the next time his services were needed.

Get this, The first report of death is in front of the McCormick Reaper! Same place as the catalyst of the Haymarket operation. What are the chances that the same protagonist, antagonist and the setting are the same in each script? 

The McCormick Works would soon become the International Harvester Works. Notice anything? It means they were not opposition at all. Each would shorten their name to only the ‘International

The main battle itself lasted for several days and is remember as the ‘Battle for the Viaduct.’ Large crowds were gathered, police ordered to disperse crowd. The crowd was retreating when officers opened fire. This pissed the masses off which turned and charged the cops. Cops turn to run away. Citizens had them cornered till a youth opened the bridge for their escape and to let in the Feds returning from the Indian wars. The viaduct was destroyed bc it is part of the canal system, that means it is as ancient as the railroads. Any excuse to erase a relic from the olde world is always used. The returning soldiers were part of the Indian Wars that didnt happen. Their appearance is noteworthy here as well. They only mention their own.

Interestingly, contemporary media accounts report guerrilla warfare tactics in that every time the cops would show up the crowd would dissolve only to reappear somewhere else. More French Revolution script. The Pinkertons were from Chicago, they had home court advantage. The Board of Trade and the City Council are the same thing. They voted plenary powers to be issued to citizen volunteer vigilantes. This is the same move enabling the same powers to hold their proxy street war. Paid mercenaries shooting it out with deputized vigilantes.

Reported casualties are estimated around 18 workers but nobody is 100% sure as many of the bodies were thrown into a mass grave at the local lime pit. Aces and Eights. Many of the bodies in a mass grave could mean anything, maybe there were no bodies and the whole thing is written in as something else with a new narrative attached. That would explain the suspicious lack of monuments at the site. These people love to pay homage to themselves, soething of this magnitude should have at least a bronze or an obelisk.

No bronzes for this one, when Haymarket has 3.

There are more instances of recycled French Revolution material here I didn’t include, such as the time frame, the whole episode in Chicago happened in 3 days, same as France. The looting of the gun store is another one.  

Bonus Round: The Michigan Central Railroad Conspiracy
* The leading characters were all of the New England families. Conspirators, lawyers, the judge was a Pratt, the investors, the politicians… All from wealthy New England merchant families. This is reason enough for me to know how the whole thing played out  * The media frenzy was used fear porn and manipulation tactics to justify increased police forces curfews and travel restrictions. Victimize the railroad so all of a sudden the focus was not on all the livestock being killed that the owner still wasn’t getting compensated for.  * Explain the destruction and wasted train engines and stations. The narrative says this incident was used as an excuse for rr owners to build massive stone fortress-type stations after their wooden ones were burnt down, I say there was no wooden ones and the stone fortresses were pre-existing. * Used to round up real potential threats to the RR. Mixed in with the actors from the families were all the leading anti-railroad movement. At the end half were set free and half were sentenced to hard labor. Real opposition was removed.  * The man charged with the actual arson of the depot, coincidentally the same guy that ran the counterfeit and prostitution ring conveniently died before trial. The ringleader of the conspirators also died before trial was over, creating a martyr i.e., false idol. He had been there years in advance laying the groundwork.  * The trial itself was a mockery. Sure, the RR had unlimited resources, money and influence. The investors and bankers and lawyers of the RR are also the judges and governors and congressmen of the territory. Venue changes, rights violated. The supposed deaths of several accused while in custody. ‘Innocent until proven guilty’. * The defense attn. was jew Sen. Seward imported from NYC Seward’s involvement is a flag in itself as he was supposedly attacked by a Booth co-conspirator the night of Lincolns staged assassination.  * Fire seemed to be an Modus Operandi. of MCRR. There were several fires in the 1850’s aside from the arson. These fires were written up as accidents but there are no accidents dealing with these groups, they were setting their own stuff on fire or it was already burnt.  * Change of venue was allowed, A RR investor was also a member of the House of Reps. He created a brand-new law just to make it possible for the trial to be moved to the right jurisdiction where the show was to be held. The defense attorney agreed to the move, even though the original jurisdiction was favorable.  * The RR admitted to using a paid informant network of spies and double agents who admitted they didn’t know what side they were working for all the time. * This intelligence network supposedly also happened to uncover a counterfeit and prostitution ring by coincidence. There was an awful amount of money being thrown around to people not used to folding money, it was as fake as the trial. The prostitution ring was just to sex things up for the narrative. * Set the stage for a much larger production later. This was contained in one state. The post-war anti-railroad movement and Granger laws were a few years later and involved multiple states. This was the runner up. That’s another pattern we identified. A smaller production is played out before the grand finale’  * The first news stories are not consistent. With each other or with the official court documents.  * Public resentment caused the RR to pardon some of the innocent, and even pay restitution money for time and trouble. They admit this was to quell outcry and prevent more anti-rail sentiment, which was still heavy bc they had still avoided paying for the livestock killed by trains, then any sense of moral duty.  * The ringleader is memorialized in statue. Marble instead of bronze this time but close enough.  * One thing the incident did was co-opt the term ‘Railroad Conspiracy’. Algorithms ensure all traffic trying to research the real conspirators head on are brought to this case.

St Louis Commune

In what is called the St Louis commune today gets its name from the Paris Commune socialist revolt of 1871. It was, in my opinion, a successful Socialist revolution. 

The strike started July 23rd after speeches made by 2 politicians, a judge and prominent lawyer, far from working class immigrants. 

500 Workingmen Party members showed up singing La Marcellaises, a tune from the French Revolution, Paris Commune, or so says the NYT coverage of the day. They compared the two several times on front page headlines 

The first order of business was to establish an Executive Committee, the first order of business from the EC was to blockade the railroad until terms were renegotiated. Passenger trains were continued, and the EC collected the fare. Freight was halted.  

StL in particular be a river cuts it in half, you have StL and East StL. Each side has its own mayor, looks like both mayors were in on it. 

In East StL the mayor appointed a special team of strikers as task force to police railroad property. Let that sink in for a second. The hand chosen rioters were given special police powers to patrol the property of the railroad. This incident is a microcosm of the whole revolution. They are all on the same side. The committee even when so far as to close all saloons within 6 blocks of the rail depot to, lest some drunken antics led to a midnight arson. Mayor Bowman also served as ambassador to the RR companies in the Name of the Strikers. Nothing creepy about that guy 

In regular StL the mayor enacted no preventive measures and they had a speaker’s wagon set in the middle of Lucus Market. The EC detailed a special committee to liaison with the mayor, chairman was Lofgreen, which is a variation of the Greenleaf spook family. Committee made up of shoemakers, cobblers, not the surname, but I have seen many familiar names from other events. 

StL mayor could not stop the feds arrival the next day 6 companies of the 23rd US Infantry from Kansas supported by two Gatlin guns. The 23rd Infantry had just returned from the fake battle of little big horn *check out Custers life insurance policy for direction. Their involvement is enough evidence I need to know the whole show is rigged. 

Another EC was created to harness the power of a general strike, not just the railroad workers but all trades joined in. Here we see the majority of members are considered unskilled laborers and is seen as a sign of the times that the depression was so low it reached into other areas of the working class such as doctors and students and newspaper men and pharmacist and white-collar workers. Funny how all the trades remembered of the inner circle are intel markers. 

Local business proprietors and merchants hired up their own gangs of special committee of military veteran, Blackwater security forces to ‘protect’ their property. The two leaders of this team were civil war gens, one Union and one Confederate, AJ Smith and JS Marmaduke. this also shows two opposing forces working on the same team. 

IWP motto, ‘Death to thieves, incendiaries and murderers’ had to’ve been wrote by a RRS, to protect their property from thief’s and firebugs. Who else would make up a motto so stupid except one of their own. They printed out and distributed a Proclamation which really doesn’t say anything except to remind people of the motto and throw in there some more of the 8-hr. workday rhetoric. Mainly what it did was establish the authority of the EC. Just the fact it was printed and circulated is mentioned by mainstream cover-story authors that the power was accepted. You and me both know they probs had them bitched printed up the week before and were sitting on the shelves. Actually, this is the first time they have been subjected to anything except dem and rep. Both were to be found lacking to the common working person so this introduction to Socialism was to be for them to jump start the political platform. The Workingmens Party changed their name to National Socialist Party. That Proclamation is so generic and broad it could’ve been printed up at any point in time by Marx himself and nobody would’ve been the wiser. The language of the proclamation gives it away. Terms like monopolist and capitalist were Marxist socialist terms 

A parade was held on main street with brass marching band complete with red flags were flown and banners that read ‘No Monopoly, Workingmens Rights ‘all over the city, this is said to be bc they were the only flags available and they came from the brakemen’s tool of the trade. That’s bullshit. They were red socialist flags being flown as a declaration they had won. These people had been in a military victory parade and they didn’t even know it. 

 This is a good one: somewhere along the route an unnamed marcher showed up with a loaf of bread and declared it a symbol of the worker’s struggle. We can surmise bread and the symbolism of life goes back as far as there has been labor disputes. Even the local press acknowledged the organization and leadership skills of the strikers. This was part of the promotion, street cred. 

On the 26th was more violence, scuffles broke out between tradesmen were covered by the NYTimes, who had been record keeping the whole incident play-by-play to the rest of the world. The speech of the night of the 26th calls to seize the govt. Recall the bank charters and nationalize the railroad (give it to the people). Also, the 8-hr. work day is omnipresent at dozens of decades of labor disputes. This is the first time someone finally admits it for what it was, strike leader, Thomas Curtis, calls to take it to the presidency, admits “It’s not a strike, it’s a social revolution.” 

Recall the bank charter sounds good but it is legalese word fuckery, in attempt to get the dollar off the gold standard. Printing worthless ‘greenbacks’ 

Another parade was scheduled for 10 the next morning. All business was shut down without permission of the EC. One example of this was the sugar refinery, Jacobinmag tells us they had several tons of sugar that would spoil so they went to the committee who allowed them to open, even prompting workers to come off strike and sending 200 men guard. I mention this bc they mention it first, remember they only promote and remember their own. The sugar industry to be as corrupt as any of other Railroad or Fruit slave labor. It is fitting they would be allowed to remain open with a guard detail. Other historians say this incident signifies the corporations submitting to their authority. I say its bullshit, the sugar plant never closed bc they are an undercover slave industry. Probs worse than the American Railroad. Slavery had recently been abolished in the States, at least on paper, but not the plantations of , say, Puerto Rico or Haiti. Here is a link about how the sugar industry has partnered up with Harvard and NYTimes to false report the ill-effects of sugar and blame it on fat. Here is another on how the sugar industry funds both sides of politics for gain and protection. Here is a third article about a boiler explosion at the refinery in StL which killed a Heminghoffer…Like a mix of Hemingway and a Hoffman all rolled up into one. There are all kinds of sketchy names and numbers associated in this gory article. 

Two primary sources I used for an account of the StL commune both inject black culture unsuccessfully to avoid sounding racist themselves by saying the individual is singled out and it isnt the sentiment of the whole. Both sources are noticeable but it is in separate places. They both veer the reader off-course in other places too, that means two dif places have both hyped up the black experience in an effort to do like damage control for their own racism. 

July 26th the EC stalls. Right after they had over taken the entire city and had parades a general order was issued forbidding all gatherings. They essentially shut down their own revolution. His-story blames inexperienced leadership like it all just kinda fell apart for no reason, like ‘we got it, now what’re we gonna do with it’, and drop the ball. They didn’t want any real change. They stalled on purpose which gave the feds the time they needed to strike back. 

When the Feds stormed the revolutionist stronghold on the 27th they found it empty. A few arrests of some people written up as reports for being where ‘they had no business being’ but the Committee had escaped. They didn’t even need firsthand early warning; the whole thing was scripted from the beginning. There was a big Hoo-rah and parade that was the queue to shut things down. The feds marched the street width abreast along with mounted cannon and cleaned house. There was some political rhetoric between the mayor and the Party about returning to work and conditions.  

The EC turned themselves in the next day and were detained on some trumped-up charges. No consequences for any member, all charges dropped. 

San Francisco

In San Francsico it is remembered as a race riot in today’s PC atmosphere bc it targeted the Chinese labor force. Modern his-storians forget to mention the unrest was only one chapter in a national movement, focusing on the racial aspects. I have found this similar derailment in other cities as well. And in literature, the book St Louis Commune 1877 blames the whole thing on mistreatment of black workers. Maybe it has some good useful information, but it was written as a jewish misinfo tool so I didn’t read any once I could see past the bullshit.  

The incident in SF is treated as a isolated and unconnected incident, some sources even go so far as to claim in was instigated by a different Workmen’s Party the night the violence started. After the completion on the intercontinental railroad there were scores of Chinese immigrant labor, mainly employed by the Pacific Central RR Syndicate. (Yep, the same RRS from the Credit Mobilier Scandal. This indicates the Workmen and the RR are on the same team. *Good link

Even the NY Times got in on the anti-coolie rhetoric, publishing the headline the Chinese aren’t welcomed here bc the do not vote and work for cheap labor. The violence was directed almost exclusively at the Chinese but that was bc they made up the workforce, not out of general racism as the disinfo cover agents lead you to believe. Hangings, shootings, destruction of property, assaults. 

 I see this as several overlapping projects working together. The Chinese by large has been kept isolated from the western world as a social engineering experiment. They collaborated on some things, such as the birth control pill and mind control research but the general public were kept apart. The PCRR imported cheap Chinese workers, then when the job was done, they cut them loose the guilded capitalist way, they organized a race riot against the population. It wasn’t about racism; they were the foreign work force the true Workmen would call brother. 

A few months after the Upheaval when the Social Labor Party was officially announced the third item on their articles of resolutions states:  

“The importation of Coolies under contract must be immediately prohibited, and coolies already in America released from similar obligations.”  

This article shows to me they are not about service to all workers regardless of race. As we saw a better example of how they treated black strikers in other cities pretty much consistently across the board. Marx was a racist, this is a Marxist leaning organization, its not hard to put that one together, and that there was a broader attack on the Chinese altogether. Sentiment was stoked in the usual manner and eventually led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Of all the imported immigrant nationalities, like Irish, African, Italians, and jews, only the Chinese was there a ‘no contact’ order put on the table. This wasn’t lifted till 1943, after that a 104 Chinese immigrant quota was in effect till ‘63. 

There was a pamphlet written up titled ‘Labor Agitation and the Battle for Bread’, subtitled, the Chinese Must Go. Could this be yet another proto-Bread and Roses pet name being refined? We have several more suspects instances already. 

The Workmen loudmouth led over 2,000 protesters to Nob Hill, a Housing Complex built by the RRS warlords in the area.  They joked about going to invite the owners to the riots. They even built bonfires for seeing light. Are you fucking kidding me? They were the inside agents, Pinkertons in one form or another. A bloodlust crown of thousands goes to the elite’s backyard…as a jest? If it was a real crowd in an organic riot, they would have ripped those jerkoffs limbs off. They didn’t even torch the mansions. This proves to me the leader of the California Workmen’s chapter was really a railroad intelligence agent. Also, the chapter was only a few months old, that’s how the disinfo sites claim they are not affiliated with the east coast IWA, well if this was all being organized months in advance, I’d say the people to start the chapter to do the boots on the groundwork would be the RRS itself. This would explain the location chosen so close to the robber barons complex, for protection. 

Another ‘coincidence’ is the authority put together a ‘Committee of Public Safety’. The mayor set up a special force, (Pinkertons) complete with little special badges. They were also called the Axhandle Committee. [A contemporary SF paper complimented the police that an upgraded billyclub had been issued: “A better instrument in the skull cracking business than any other design…” there’s another M.O.] In at least one other city (Stlouis) the mayor formed an Executive Committee of Public Safety. 

Baltimore,

July 16th a pay reduction took effect, this is pretty universal, most participating cities had a pay reduction a few days before the battle. Some places had several deductions. Several manufactering trades were already striking.

July 17th a locomotive is derailed.

On July 20th B&O prez asked the MD gov to send troops to Cumberland where the situation had deteriorated. The order was issued for the 5th and 6th troops to proceed to their respective arsenals. As the daily shift was ending the city alarm went off for the first time. Excited innocents flooded out into the streets to see.

a few hundred of the 5th reg began the march to Camden station to catch the train to Cumberland were met with bricks and bats but held their own.

The 6th reg assembled at their armory, the Phoenix tower, (anything named Phoenix is a clue)were met by several thousand strikers. Backup was called in and many Baltimore cops showed up but got beaten back into the armory with the troops.

By 8 pm a decision was made to march across town. about 500 troop and 200 cops marched through the streets stopping to blast off a few rounds at mobsters all the way. At 8:30 5th, 6th red and the cops made it to Camden Station. History records that they were met at the station by the gov of MD, the mayor of Baltimore, the General of the Army and the Prez of the B&O railroad. Lol, thats the funniest thing I heard all day. Thats just a pure fairy tale any of those people were at the train station. It was at this time they decieed to pproceed to Cumberland would be too dangerous. The train was steamed up ready to go with 11 cars. Thats you mark right there. The 11 tells you the big wigs werent there.

The group stayed throughout the night, keeping watch in shifts, while the striking mob of 15,000 set fire to railroad property.

The next morning all but 11 members of the 5th deserted and the two units were consolidated. Strikers attempted to set fire to railroad property all across the city. Two new regs were established and Federal troops were brought in to quell arsonists.

Negotiations are said to have failed at the end, the railroad fired everyone that wouldnt return to work.

Troops were sent to Pittsburgh where the fighting was still ongoing.

“What was worse, the debacles set a style for the later violence of the 1880s and 1890s. Homestead…Haymarket…the Pullman strike debacle were typical examples. The pattern of invoking armed intervention to break strikes was repeated over and over again until the scene shifted to the more evenly matched battles of the 1930s and more recent years,” said The Sun Magazine.

The first Labor Day Parade was held five years later in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882.

B. Sun July 22

Baltimore Sun July 23, 1877

Sun, July 26, 1877

Grafton

Grafton is also home of the International Shrine for Mothers Day, theres an article here I wrote about the formation of Mothers Day worth taking a look at. I always say that physical locations will make connections just as well as dates or agent family names or symbols. The town was spooky enough, on top of that there was alot of activity in the 1877 Strike as well.

The fact the local media outlet was chosen to spread the memo is suspect as well. Anytime the media is used to send a wide message you know the whole story is bullshit; the Zodiac Killer, BTK, and the Unibomber are a few that come to mind. A serious party would not relie on such an unreliable party for one and two the of a strike would know who the media really is; they are a fractal of the RR themslves, no way would a real resistance would trust the media, thats as true today as it was 200 years ago. So for this reason I dont trust the Grafton Strikers, even if I didnt know about they’re Mothers Day connection, still got to include them in my essay.

Historic images

This letter to the editor from the July 20, 1877 Baltimore American supports the strikers as having “just cause” and criticizes the government officials for overreacting and creating the crisis.

July 20th, 1877.

Messrs. Editors of the American:

A false impression exists as to the conduct of the “strikers” on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Grafton, which I desire to correct. The causes of the strike are universally known. That the strikers have just cause of complaint at the action of the Company cannot be denied, and they have the sympathy of the people throughout the entire country. Their cause has not been such as represented by the telegrams sent from this place by the Railroad Company’s officials, whose conduct has been such as to aggravate rather than allay the excitement. There has been no violent outbreak here, neither has any one been injured. The Company’s property is in as perfect condition as before the strike and the men are quiet and orderly, and I just heard an official of the Company say that the strikers had fifteen of their number last night guarding the cars and property of the Company, and also stated that the men who were arrested at the first outbreak said if they had not been arrested they would not have allowed the bolt pins and couplings to have been taken, or any damage done whatever. The men are sober, quiet and orderly, contenting themselves with preventing their comrades, who express a willingness to do so, from going to work. This they have succeeded in doing without violations of the law. The Company no doubt desires to enlist the sympathy as well as the services of the country in its present trouble. That it cannot do here. The policy it has pursued in laying extortionate rates on local freight, oppressing shippers on its line as well as reducing the pay for increased labor that ten percent dividends might be paid its stockholders, has made it the enemy of the people as well as the employes. The people and men ask, why not reduce the dividend on its stock held by the capitalists as well as the pay of the employes, who toil honestly for their bread? Why not reduce the rate on local freights as well as on through traffic? We may be answered they cannot do so for the reason they must compete with other lines. That is not sufficient; the local freights should not alone keep up the road, pay its dividends and the loss on its through business. The people as well as the employes have complaints, in this they may learn why West Virginians will not go the Company’s rescue in the present trouble.

JUSTICE. [Just-us]

Cumberland

President Rutherford Hayes’ Manifesto Against Domestic Violence proclamation in Cumberland along B&O line

Reading, PA

Keyser, Milwaukee, Detroit

Something else?

The main cities were Philly Baltimore St Louis Chicago and San Fran. All suffered a devastating Great Fire, was home to a World Fair, and was key in the RR Strike of 77. There is more here than whats usually kept out. This point marks a turning point for me and my understanding of the world, when I sought the connection for all these random points it led me to the Reset.

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