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Today in Labor History April 19, 1911: More than 6,000 immigrant workers began the Great Furniture Strike in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By the late 1800s, Grand Rapids had become the furniture making capital of the U.S. In 1890, the city had about 90,000 residents, 33,000 of whom were recent immigrants. And 4,000 of them worked in the city’s 85 furniture factories. By 1910, the industry employed over 7,000 workers. Most worked six 10-hour shifts for less than $2 a day, or about $45 in today’s dollars. One of the owners, Harry Widdicomb, tried to drive scabs to his factory, right through the crowd of strikers. They pelted his car with rocks and bricks. Police beat people with clubs and firefighters fought them back with hoses. But by evening, they had busted every window in his factory.

Riot police of the Grand Rapids Police Department in 1911, with bell-shaped helmets and clubs. By Grand Rapids Daily News - https://origins.calvin.edu/2020/05/07/johannes-groen-and-grand-rapids-politics/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108239304
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Jenny

#TeslaTakeDown - #GrandRapids, #Michigan

👉 WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 12-1:30pm
👉 WHERE: Tesla Showroom
2919 29th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512 US

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#Resist #Tesla #MI
@teslatakedown

actionnetwork.orgSaturday Tesla Takedown Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us. Not politicians, not the media, not the courts. ⚡Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ We're tanking Tesla's stock price to stop Musk. ⚡Stopping Musk will help save lives and protect our democracy. Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. Together we can do this! #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla Bring a sign if you can, but don't let that keep you from joining us. Keep signage and behavior civil (when they go low, we go high...) This week I need to leave at 1:30, but typically we will be there until 2. We hope to make this a weekly thing.
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