I was born in the 50s and started high school in the 60s, and was aware of news.
Unions were legal.
Strikes were legal.
Some people worked 6 days a week but 5 was more common; you heard “the weekend” more than “my day off”.
Soldiers and police weren’t killing strikers (source) - list of labor dispute deaths going back to 1850s lists none between 1936 and 1979
The part about defending elites instead of common people - yeah probably, I can’t think how to research that. The rest I dunno, this will just get douchevoted anyway, but I mean we should strive for accuracy right? Or maybe we don’t care.
SF bay area. I remember there being lots of strikes when I was a kid - farm laborers, for example. There was a big deal about boycotting grapes or lettuce or something, In fact there was a strike at the company where my dad worked. Nobody got shot. There are plenty of valid points to make about government serving the rich and not the common people, without resorting to just making shit up (or automatically believing it). Bobbleheads on the side of Goodness and Justice are still bobbleheads.
I was born in the 50s and started high school in the 60s, and was aware of news.
Unions were legal.
Strikes were legal.
Some people worked 6 days a week but 5 was more common; you heard “the weekend” more than “my day off”.
Soldiers and police weren’t killing strikers (source) - list of labor dispute deaths going back to 1850s lists none between 1936 and 1979
The part about defending elites instead of common people - yeah probably, I can’t think how to research that. The rest I dunno, this will just get douchevoted anyway, but I mean we should strive for accuracy right? Or maybe we don’t care.
Someone didn’t read the whole post
Which oblast was that?
SF bay area. I remember there being lots of strikes when I was a kid - farm laborers, for example. There was a big deal about boycotting grapes or lettuce or something, In fact there was a strike at the company where my dad worked. Nobody got shot. There are plenty of valid points to make about government serving the rich and not the common people, without resorting to just making shit up (or automatically believing it). Bobbleheads on the side of Goodness and Justice are still bobbleheads.
It’s a comparison to 1960s soviet union and today’s America.