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Friday, August 14, 2020

Coal Workers were mostly WHITE unskilled workers!

 

Coal Workers were for the most part WHITE unskilled workers!
My neighbors voting for trump and trump republicans,
“What’s your job look like”?

How many trump supporters are classified as (Unskilled Workers)?

trump republicans have been working for the past 30 plus years to take the country back to those 1800’s trump is on track to make it happen soon after the 2020 election!

Coal workers before unions?

https://daily.jstor.org/coal-miners-unions/


In 1886 700,000 workers were ‘White’ 

and 

60,000 were ‘Black’!

Unlike other labor unions, the Knights of Labor encouraged blacks to join!

https://tcmag.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/before-there-were-unions-by-v-lyn/

By 1886, membership in the Knights of Labor had swollen to 700,000 workers

and stood as a champion for the unskilled laborer.

Unlike other labor unions, the Knights of Labor encouraged blacks to join, so that by 1886, approximately 60,000 blacks had become members.

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