“We’re with you,” the mill worker said. “We’re in the same boat…I won’t call the employers despots. I won’t call them tyrants. But the term capitalist is sort of synonymous and it will do.”

A Pittsburgh mill worker in 1877 declaring solidarity with the striking rail workers

UC Radio: 2017.07.14

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