Krueger Cream Ale, the first canned beer, goes on sale in Richmond, Va. Pabst was the second brewer in the same year to sell beer in cans, which came with opening instructions and the suggestion: "cool before serving" - 1935
Federal minimum wage increases to 75 cents an hour - 1952
Today in #LaborHistory : January 24 -- via -- "The Daily Bleed"
1920 -- US: 3,000 arrested in Red Scare raids, most without cause or warrants, their homes & businesses invaded & destroyed. --via--The Daily Bleed
1920 -- US: 3,000 arrested in Red Scare raids, most without cause or warrants, their homes & businesses invaded & destroyed. --via--The Daily Bleed
Palmer, obsessed with communist, socialist and other radical working-class organizations of the time, recruited J Edgar Hoover as his special assistant and launched a campaign against the movements. Using violence pushed by some in the anarchist movement as their cover, Palmer invoked the Espionage and Sedition Acts. He created a narrative that communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman," socialists were causing most of the country's social problems and radicals were on the brink of overthrowing the government.
Palmer also built on anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia among the U.S.-born public as a rationale for the raids. Anti-immigrant sentiment, while present throughout U.S. history, is often fueled by ruling class interests..
In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, coupled with a sharp downturn in the capitalist economy worldwide, the U.S. ruling class trembled. Radical ideas of socialism captured working people's imagination as they faced unemployment, hunger and poverty under capitalism. If U.S.-born and foreign-born working people were to unite, that could spell trouble for Wall Street and their political titans of the time. Fomenting "Red Scare" and xenophobia would work to their advantage. The same tactics were used against strikers and workers - both U.S. and foreign born - during the 1919 steel strike, for example. ~De
The Daily Bleed is @ http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0124.htm
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