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The Mother Lode Progressive: Agenda 21 in the News Again

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Agenda 21 in the News Again. In the Mountain Democrat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About The Mother Lode Progressive. The Mother Lode Progressive is committed to political and economic change in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. This blog is devoted to the analysis policies that affect rural Central California, the advocacy of progressive ideas, and the history of the left wing in this region. Amador County Labor History Project. Simple templat...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 2)

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Monday, February 14, 2011. The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 2). The Western Federation of Miners: A Brief Introduction. Cripple Creek militia rounded up by National Guard. The success of this strike popularized the W.F.M. and the hard rock miners across the west began to organize, including those who worked the gilded quartz beneath the hills of Jackson California. University of Illinois Press, 1998. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Gr...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 4)

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Monday, February 28, 2011. The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 4). Note: Please read Posts 1. A Shot Across the Land. McKinley died several days later. Czolgosz justified his actions, as his last words before electrocution: “I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people—the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.”. Influenced violent acts against businessmen and politicians across the Western world. I have just dis...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: Lumber and Sawmill Workers in Amador County on Strike

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Saturday, August 25, 2012. Lumber and Sawmill Workers in Amador County on Strike. Coverageof the strike from the Sacramento Bee. Please call the highlighted number on this handbill to urge a fair contract with Sierra Pine's workers. August 26, 2012 at 4:22 AM. Found a site lead411.com and it said salaries in SierraPine Limited are somewhere in the amount of $60099. Read more here: http:/ www.sacbee.com/2012/08/25/4755714/sawmill-workers-strike-at-sierrapine.html? 12: A Week o...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: Your Cheatin' Heart: The Story of the Jackson Raley's Strike, Part I

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Your Cheatin' Heart: The Story of the Jackson Raley's Strike, Part I. By Michael Israel and David Roddy. Will make you weep. You'll cry and cry. And try to sleep. But sleep won't come. The whole night through. Photo credit Layla Griffin. Yes, but no more than any other entity currently. I do feel they were exaggerated.”. Another employee who worked for the company for twenty years stated:. Picketers at the Jackson Raley's. The Mother Lode Progressive...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 10)

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Monday, May 9, 2011. The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 10). The union organizer as a noxious weed that. Blooms every spring, from the conservative. Democrat "Puck Magazine.". Note: See previous posts here. They posted the notices all around the mines of Sutter Creek and. Up and down the main streets of those towns, tacked onto church and city hall walls. The April rain smudged the ink, but the stark clarity of the message remained intact.

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The Mother Lode Progressive: The Ground We Walk On: A History of the Jackson Miner's Union (Post 6)

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Monday, March 14, 2011. The Ground We Walk On: A History of the Jackson Miner's Union (Post 6). A tempest of controversy. Workers at Amador's Zeila gold mine, 1910. On October 3, 1902, a letter was published by the Amador Dispatch signed only with “A Miner” expresses this attitude. Why should we want a man to come all the way from Colorado to tell us what we want in Amador county? I don’t remember of ever working only eight hours on a shift in my life-time, so it would ...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: Trade, Timber, and Termination: Worker Struggles in California's Gold Country

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Thursday, September 13, 2012. Trade, Timber, and Termination: Worker Struggles in California's Gold Country. Photos courtesy of Sue Jennings-Johnson. By Michael Israel and David Roddy. Union president Tony Garcia explained the situation to reporters:. One of the strikers told us that on the morning of August 24, the entire workforce of the plant, in the first instance of all the factory's departments uniting, walked out. American Jobs, American Lumber. Under this new regime, ...

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The Mother Lode Progressive: Your Cheatin' Heart: The Raley's Strike in Jackson, Part III

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Friday, January 4, 2013. Your Cheatin' Heart: The Raley's Strike in Jackson, Part III. By Michael Israel and David Roddy. Advertising for strike breakers. Photos credit. On the first morning of the strike, a casually dressed man left his vehicle on the far end of the parking lot and walked hastily towards the picket line. A striker called to him,. 8220;You’re not shopping are you? The man replied, “Nope.”. 8220;We’ll see.”. Resignation form given to employees before strike.

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The Mother Lode Progressive: The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 11)

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The Mother Lode Progressive. Monday, June 6, 2011. The Ground We Walk On: A History of The Jackson Miners Union (Post 11). By David Roddy (. Previous posts in this series here. Sheriff T.K. Norman and the. Conservative forces in early 20th century America painted European immigrants. As stealing from Anglo-American wage earners. Mine owners and newspapers in. Amador County blamed such immigrants for labor upheavals. Image from Judge Magazine. By 1903, Mine Owners Associations across the American West had...