August 20, 1914 – An office for the Parrot Mine in Butte, - TopicsExpress



          

August 20, 1914 – An office for the Parrot Mine in Butte, Montana was dynamited on this date. In March 1912, Amalgamated Copper fired 500 miners, accusing them of being Socialists. In December they imposed a blacklist to exclude workers with affiliations to leftist and labor organizations. Pinkerton and Thiel detective agencies infiltrated the union to mark agitators and provoke violence in order to weaken the union.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:11:04 +0000

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