The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34352   Message #1843075
Posted By: Tannywheeler
25-Sep-06 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 1913 Massacre (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: RE: Guthrie's 1913 Massacre
'member, folks, there were a number of "robber baron" type capitalists in the late 19th & early 20th cent. here in America. Woody saw stuff happen to union members/organizers, and heard from survivors of earlier stuff the results of "bosses" hiring strikebreakers. True stories. The need to be in control & to brook NO difference of opinion, thought, or understanding--along with the belief that other people are not quite as human or worthy of consideration as one's self--makes for some serious disregard of consequences of violent confrontation--or the belief that the turmoil, pain, mayhem, death engendered are small price to pay for the establishment of the kind of order the "boss" wants. (see Adolf Hitler, Didi Amin, Josef Stalin, etc. ad infinitum....). Rotten shame that Woody's tale-telling is so often true.....       Tw