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In today's labor history, on this date in 1913, Northern Michigan copper miners struck for union recognition, higher wages and the eight-hour day. By the time they threw in the towel the following April, 1,100 had been arrested on various charges and Western Federation of Miners President Charles “Charlie” Moyer had been shot, beaten and forced out of town. Today’s labor quote is by Alexander Berkman, the anarchist who shot and stabbed -- but failed to kill -- steel magnate Henry Clay Frick on this date in 1892 in an effort to avenge the Homestead massacre 18 days earlier, in which nine strikers were killed. Alexander Berkman, who said: “If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.”
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