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To: IronJack
OK, I get your point of view--- and I like the image of "shedding its ermine for tweed."

You might be interested in reading "Labor's Untold Story" by Morais and Boyer. My father put it in my hands when I was about 12. (I'm a desendant of iron foundry workers and runaway indentured servant girls). You want land and labor stolen and sold, murder in the mines and mills, hungry mothers, battles, and bloody betrayals---

There are a number of things different about the US and Britain, of course. The oppressed in the British Isles died alongside their children in the workhouses --- or came to the USA. And the oppressed in the USA went West. We had that safety valve: one step ahead of the Pinkertons, change your name and make a new start in Wichita.

64 posted on 07/24/2019 2:00:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You want land and labor stolen and sold, murder in the mines and mills, hungry mothers, battles, and bloody betrayals---

Nah. I want a fair wage and reasonable working conditions. But I also want profits and capital and personal accountability and freedom from overweening government that, in the name of mercy and compassion, actually tyrannizes its citizens.

And I don't believe for an instant that Man is capable of building any but a poor imitation of biblical Jerusalem.

66 posted on 07/24/2019 2:27:53 PM PDT by IronJack
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