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Malcolm Glaubel here.

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Is there anybody here who just came in because they thought it was going to be a comedy show?

Is there?

That's hilarious.

You've made a mistake.

I don't know what's better, that nobody really did?

A couple people are like, what?

What's going on?

Why are there two of them sitting down right now?

It's super weird.

What was that first guy was the best.

The guy who came out and took his shirt off and drank water.

That Bert Kreiser guy?

Yeah.

It's like sober Bert Kreiser is what you just saw.

Bert flew.

November 25th.

Wait, we didn't even do the intro, but you forgot where you left off.

Oh, shit.

You started it.

You're listening to the dollar.

Yeah, jeez.

It's American history, but stop it.

No, it's getting bad.

This is like the Sinatra,

I wrote the lyrics on my hand.

I have dementia.

This is like Elvis, where someone's like, wise men say,

only what?

Fools.

Only pools rush.

Do you know how happy I would be if that's how this podcast works?

If someone

told me everything to say instead of having to do all the research while you can

dance around like a monkey.

Come on.

You listen to the dollop.

An American history podcast.

Does anyone not know what this is?

Oh, sorry.

Yeah, there's...

Each week, I, Dave Anthony, read a story from American history to a guy who's kind of mean backstage.

Come on.

This is nuts.

Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.

And I...

Everyone thinks he's the nice guy.

I'm a peach.

He's the mean guy.

Shut the fuck up.

Shut it or I'll shut it.

Ten years.

You know when you create a relationship and you realize, my God, I created a relationship with my father all over again.

Shut your fucking mouth.

November 25th, 1916.

It's a good year, especially in Arizona.

The International Workers of the World Union.

Oh, fuck you.

What the fuck?

It's a cat.

What the fuck?

It's a cat.

Locate that.

I mean...

Hey, what should we have for our union symbol?

Something where the witches will sue.

That is fucking that's cat fuck.

That is fucking nuts.

I don't know what that is.

And they're letting, they're like, do the asshole one where the cat like

shows hole.

Do it where the cat shows hole.

The artist probably gave him one in the front one.

I'm like, no, no, flip it around.

Yeah, flip it.

Yeah.

Let's see that butthole.

Flip it.

That says union.

Can you can you staple an eraser right under the tail?

Yeah, let's see that hole.

Hey, boss, can we get some dick?

Yeah,

we got two notes.

More hole, bigger dick.

Come on.

So the Wobblies, the Wobblies held their convention in Chicago.

Boo.

Boo.

You guys don't.

Okay.

A proposal was passed authorizing $2,000 in funds to organize miners in the West.

Nice.

That's weird.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, yeah.

They don't care.

Neither do I.

They were like, nope.

Are any of you guys miners?

Miners?

Watch it.

Easy does it, Crystalia.

How's his career going?

Really good.

Really, shockingly well.

Why are you still listening to that?

I'm okay.

In January 1917 the IWW Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union number 800 was created the MMWIW

I mean just it's too much

it's just too much

mew mew

you bastards

IWW organizers then headed west to organize this time physical violence death and property destruction were pretty common during labor fights in the West.

Sure.

Okay.

Really?

That's the bad part, you guys.

No, that's the good part.

We love it.

I'm all for property destruction.

You guys know I love it.

I fucking love it.

After this show, we're burning this place down.

Well, that's pretty.

In Arizona, many miners were Mexican-American.

Okay.

Yep.

Yep.

Well, that's a little...

That's kind of racist.

The AFL had been letting down miners for a while.

You can imagine?

No.

Imagine.

So the AFL was too conservative, and miners were pulling out of the state as state union President Moyer.

Okay, so President Moyer sucks, and as miners become more militant, he becomes less interested.

And in February 1917, he revoked the Arizona IUMMSW's charter, saying, The district's attitudes are too radical.

Always the issue.

Now,

Big Bill Haywood, his quote was, The Western Federation of Miners had died with the blade of conservatism plunged into its heart.

Wow.

He's not fucking around.

Wow.

So, but he's saying they were too conservative.

Yeah.

Okay.

And that's why they're dying as a union.

Right.

The miners began signing up for the new militant local IWW chapters.

And two months later, a mine lawyer informed the advisory council of the National Defense that the IWW were organizing, quote, the IWW agitators are sowing seeds of sedition among the ignorant classes of the employees, most of whom are foreigners, and a strike will probably be fomented.

The production of war materials, as you know, would be seriously impaired in a short time.

I didn't think much of the workers and the immigrants that no, well, they're mostly Mexican-Americans, right?

So, all right, it feels very comfortable being like, These idiots don't even know what they're doing.

They're like, Sir, and plus, there's a war on, so they're already like, Blame the Mexicans!

Yeah, right, they're kicking it smart, good policy.

Yep, but we don't stop, it comes around, yeah.

No, it doesn't come around, it just stays.

So, uh,

by uh, May 1917, the Bisbee local, all us all wobblies.

Wait, what did you say, the Bisbee local?

All wobblies at this point.

Okay.

Anybody here from Bisbee?

Yeah, no, we're not.

We don't need a no.

Well, the silence will play the part of the no.

No.

Yep.

All the other people who didn't say yes, we took his nose.

It wouldn't be weird if they all yelled no.

No!

Whoa.

Yeah.

Anybody here from Bisbee?

No.

Perfect.

We're not.

Stands up.

You're far from Bisbee, sir!

Jerome also was all wobbly.

There's some Jeromeans here?

Wow.

Are you guys just called Jerome's?

Jeromers?

No, just Jerome's.

It should be Jerome's.

No.

No, you're Jeromes.

Right?

Shouldn't they be Jerome's?

Romies.

Fucking God.

Let's go, Romies.

On July 5th, the IWW created a called a strike and drum, asking for $6 a shift and a six-hour day.

Hmm, it seems hefty.

The AFL local called the demands, quote, ridiculous, unpatriotic, and disloyal, and said they should keep working.

That's a weird union.

Yeah, it happens though, right?

Where the union's like, shut the fuck up, work.

We're getting.

You guys are fucking idiots and you hate America and shut up and keep working.

Aren't you here to represent us?

Fuck you, loser.

Okay.

So they go on strike.

Now we got to stay together.

That's important.

It's about being a team.

All right.

Now shut your fucking mouth and go to fucking work.

So they go on strike.

And on July 10th, 250 businessmen and other local assholes started rounding up suspected wobblies.

I uh I added a little something there.

So that was not a quote.

Yeah, no.

They jail 100 and they deport 67 of them to Needles, California by train.

Could you imagine getting deported to Needles?

Oh my God.

Fuck me.

Jesus Christ.

So I guess I just work at a gas station now.

Is Guantanamo an option?

There you go.

You run a roller coaster here in Needles.

Oh, fuck.

You know why they call it Needles?

You're destined for heroin.

So that killed the strike when they did that.

They were like, hey, they're fucking doing needles now.

So the union loses.

The IWW telegraphs Governor Campbell.

So

they telegraphed the governor to protest the treatment of the workers who were deported, but the governor responded by saying Wabu leaders had, quote, threatened the governor.

Oh, wow.

Jesus Christ.

Sent me a thing.

In Bisbee, the dying SFL union said the Wobblies had taken over because it was a front for private detectives and undercover company men.

It's always the craziest shit.

You're always just like,

it's so fucking wild.

They're all millionaires.

Trust us.

We have your back.

The Wobblies are dinosaurs.

So, management is hiring informers to pose as wobbly advocates to create division.

That's what they said.

They also said that.

So, that's not true, obviously.

For

that one guy, James Chapman, who was secretary of the AFL local,

was on the payroll of a detective agency.

So, they're saying they're doing the thing where they're like, you're detectives.

Yeah, and right, and they're detectives.

Yeah, always the best.

Yeah.

So

the Wobbly Union No.

800 holds its first state convention in Bisbee, Arizona on June 15th, 1917.

And a week later, the Bisbee branch elected an executive committee to drop demands for the copper companies.

You scared?

No.

Say that again.

So they hold their,

the Wobblies hold their local convention in Arizona and then they drop demands

for the

miners.

About 8,000 live in Bisbee.

The mines were owned by the Copper Queen Miner Company.

Copper Queen?

Yeah.

Interesting.

The Kelamut and Arizona Company and the Shettuck Arizona Company.

The city is dominated by Phelps Dodge, which is the big one.

Oh, wow.

They own the Copper Queen.

They own the largest hotel, the hospital, the department store.

They own the library.

They own the newspaper.

They own everything in the town.

So they own the whole town, and the demands of the Bisbee Wobblies were just basic safety asks and end bonus and contract work, daily wage of $6, no discrimination.

No discrimination.

That one's Arizona!

No discrimination is such a like...

Why don't you ask me not to be a human?

America is...

Absolutely fucking where one of your demands is like a no discriminating and they're like, well, that one, no.

Yeah, that's a good one.

We got a hard line on this one.

Absolutely pretty.

I'm sorry.

Prejudice is.

In fact, we feel like you're discriminating against how we discriminate, which we're not okay with.

When the list was handed down to the Copper Queen mine superintendent, he ripped it up.

Fuck.

There's your fucking discrimination, you son of a bitch.

It'd be great if it was a big contractor.

He was like, come on, I'll do it in force.

One, two, three.

I'll do it page by page.

Some bullshit.

The GM of the Shattuck Arizona Company, who happened to be named L.C.

Shattuck,

said, quote, the demands of this IWW organization are unreasonable, and the plans are a nationwide conspiracy by enemies of the U.S.

government to restrict or cut off copper output required to prosecute the war.

It's fucking incredible.

They always do that, where they like overreach with their accusation.

It's like, well, that's so crazy.

It works.

I know it does, but it's like, it's shocking.

They just go big.

Like, you poke them, and then they're like, shoot his guts out.

Yeah.

The president is behind these men.

These men are CIA operatives.

They're three dogs in a man suit.

See?

Aha!

Proof.

Vindication.

What do you mean there's a problem in the old mind?

Well, who's down there?

Hold on a second.

This might be more important.

Well, what do you mean?

Collapsed?

No way it collapsed.

We just put new beams in there the other day.

Oh, my God.

Come on, everybody.

Gather around.

This three-dog man is telling us that the divine has collapsed.

Oh, Christ.

We're going, girl.

We're going.

Oh, boy, whatever you are.

I can't see.

Come on.

Woo!

I'm just hungry, you fuck.

Oh, my God.

By the time I come back for dinner, you're like, who's lost in my mind?

I want food, you fucking asshole.

Well, I want a wife who's three dogs in a woman's skin.

Dear penthouse letters.

And that one right there.

So the Wobbly's call strike on June 26th.

Over 3,000 miners walk.

That's about 80 to 90% of all the miners in Bisbee.

Fuck.

So President Moyer of the AFL Union, who basically no one is in anymore,

said he believed the Wobblies were German agents and that his union guys would work.

My guys will bust their ass for nothing.

They're Germans.

Have we done the Germans one yet?

No, they're Germans.

They're the first Reich.

Well, you only hear about the Thoid.

he also said he wouldn't allow his union members to help the IWW but union-wise what does he have he has like

he's got barely anybody left like two guys are like yeah

yeah

fuck them

so for two weeks the strike cripples Brisbane and the press were against the strikers as was Sheriff Harry Wheeler so it's a peaceful strike

But the sheriff still asked Governor Campbell to request that President Wilson send troops.

Jesus.

What are you going to do?

How about you guys not working?

Yeah, you got to go.

Send in the army.

They're Germans.

Hurry.

The War Department looks into it and decides that no, they're not sending troops.

I love it.

It's like in the middle of a war, you're like, Set him down here.

This guy's not working.

We've got to invade Bisbee.

Instead, the president approves,

appoints ex-Governor george hunt to be a strike mediator okay hunt's plan is to get them to all agree on a truce until the war ends so the the wobblies would obviously never agree to that but

the uh

the copper company wouldn't even come to the negotiating table they're just like we're not going to negotiate with this shit

So Hunt bars scabs from entering Bisbee and ordered the state militia to get food, fuel, and clothing for the strikers.

Okay, great.

Oh, oh, I'm a lefty.

I like that.

That's what.

I think he's.

Dave has this thing where he sounds sarcastic, but

he's being sincere.

It's good to feed people.

See, he's doing it again.

He's really into feeding people.

He thinks everybody should have a home.

And also to aid them in other ways.

Quote, the penniless families in this time of industrial trouble need help so now Walter Douglas is president of Phelps Dodge and he is a nepo baby his dad developed the copper queen mine and he's on the board of directors so he's elected president of the American mining congress in 1916 as a national anti-union leader okay

so Douglass is furious that Governor Hunt shows the strikers any sympathy right he's like that's not what we do as he got into his private railroad car, headed to Bisbee, he told.

The best.

What are you talking about?

They don't deserve anything.

I'll have a martini.

And.

Shrimp?

I'd love some shrimp.

Absolutely.

I might eat the shrimp.

Could we have the woman who feeds me the shrimp while I sleep come in?

That was really nice the other day.

Do you want her in the diaper?

I'll wear the diaper, have her in a nurse ensemble, and then bring the little boy who moves my jaw while I chew.

Okay.

Thank you.

Some people just won't be satisfied like those damn wobblies.

So he told the press, quote, there will be no compromise because you cannot compromise with a rattlesnake.

I believe the government will be able to show that there is a German influence behind this.

So they're going with it.

Yeah.

Germans.

Why else would they go on strike to feed their families?

No.

So they're,

so it's kept.

I really didn't think it was gonna stick.

So that's like their little like angle, isn't it?

They're Germans.

They're secret Germans.

They don't have accents, but they're Germans.

Trust us.

They're Germans.

Trust us.

Christ.

It is up to the individual communities to drive these agitators out, as been done in other communities in the past, like what had happened in Jerome with the deportation of needles.

Yeah.

Deportation of needles does sound good, though.

That's it.

It sounds like you're cleaning.

I'm cleaning up the streets.

There's going to be a deportation of needles.

So

I think that's the same person who said she wasn't from Bisbee.

I think so.

And now I like her.

Hacker up.

So Bisbee, um

oh, sorry.

Okay, buddy.

So Bisbee has a Citizens Protective League.

Nice.

Superheroes.

Never good.

Never good.

Hello, we're the fucking pieces of shit.

How are you?

Sounds like suburban superheroes.

Yeah, it's like...

Captain Cul-De-Sec.

What do you have?

The town Karens got together.

Yeah.

Super Karen.

Sorry, I'm late.

I was just demanding a fro-yo place.

Not call me a bitch.

I filmed them while I said the N-word.

All right, stop.

Chill the fuck out, would you please?

What?

I had every right.

They wanted to shut the fuck up.

Okay, anyway, what's the plan?

So they formed this league.

It's made of obviously businessman types.

There is also a workers' loyalty league made up of ex-IUMMSW members, which is the dead union.

Yep.

And they're against the Wobblies.

Nice.

So the men in these groups wanted to be deputized to take on the strikers.

What the fuck's with them?

Give us a batch so we can crack some fucking scars.

Honestly.

These guys want enough money to live.

Yeah.

Kill them.

It really is fucking, it is crazy the rage that that instills in people.

Yeah.

I think like, I guess I never was like ever on the side of the corporation.

I just, for a lot of my life, was like, eh, it seems like truth's in the middle.

Like when I was like,

no, and then it's just like, why the fuck are you on the side of the rich people?

Like, when in doubt, just listen to the union workers.

They're like telling you what's up.

Yeah, the rich guys are always full shit.

And the rich guys are like, they're Germans.

They're Germans.

Oh, they're sub-German.

I walked into the bathroom and two of them were peeing and they have accents.

They just hide them when they're out in public.

Anytime there's a rich guy talking, you just go, just think to yourself, would Elon Musk be saying the truth?

Well, he's the exception.

Exception.

So they want badges so they can beat up the strikers.

And they had previously met to discuss the same sort of deportation plan that happened in Jerome.

Okay.

So on July 12th, 1917, the morning edition of the Bisbee Daily Review printed a proclamation by Sheriff Wheeler.

He had, quote, formed a sheriff's posse of 12,000 men.

What the fuck?

That's a big posse.

Oh, you mean

Army?

Did you mean Army?

That's fucking crazy.

Overnight?

All have bow ties.

And we're ready to fuck.

Woo!

Yeah, 12,000 men in Bisbee and 1,000 in Douglas, all loyal Americans.

Good.

That's my people.

Yep.

I hate these non-loyal Americans.

Yeah.

I got a friend who doesn't have a flag on the back of his truck.

Oh, God, I want to shoot people when they hear that.

If you have a flag and you don't have.

If you have a flag and it's not flying in the back of your truck.

Jesus Christ.

Don't even start if, don't even tell me you don't have a truck, but if you have a flag and it's not

in your fucking truck.

Look, if you don't have a truck, just get in a flag and

fly like Aladdin's magic carpet.

I got one buddy who drives a flag with a truck behind it.

On my kind of paper.

Oh, yeah.

Look, living in America is a contest to see who could get the biggest flag.

That's right.

Either you're planning or you're German.

So he's created this posse.

of all loyal Americans for the purpose of arresting on the charges of vagrancy, treason, and of being disturbers of the peace of Cochise County, all those strange men who have congregated here for the purpose of harassing and intimidating all men who desire to pursue their daily toil.

This is no labor trouble.

We are sure of that.

But a direct attempt to embarrass and injure the government of the United States.

It's so fucking, it's just, they're put like treasons on your list.

You're good.

Like if you're pushing like tree, all right, there you go, you got got that.

But it's like, but also, they want the government to look foolish.

These Germans.

The sheriff told all women and children to keep off the streets that day.

They'll bite you and you'll turn German.

And then he asked for everybody's cooperation.

That's just okay.

Quote: I hope no resistance will be made, for I desire no bloodshed.

That's a terrible way to start, whatever you're doing.

Look, I don't want to kill people.

But obviously, that's very on the table.

We're dealing with the zombie Germans.

They know not what they do.

However, I am determined if resistance is made, it shall be quickly and effectively overcome.

So he is, he kind of doesn't want to be able to do that.

Yeah, I kind of want bloodshed.

It's like your plan B.

If you do leave your house, I'll kill you.

So stay inside.

The proclamation was put up all over town on polls, fences, and walls, and at 4 a.m.,

before many had the chance to read the proclamation, because they're still in bed.

Yeah, they're like walking the street.

What the fuck are you doing?

I'm walking to work.

No!

Yeah.

We're going to do bloodshed.

Several hundred.

Your husband's dead.

He was walking.

He was German, probably.

Several hundred armed men on foot and horseback gathered at assigned spots in alleyways, behind fences, and in dark places, which is where you do it.

Imagine getting assigned a dark place.

I'll do the fence.

All right, Hank, you'll go to the dark place.

Wait.

So you just go right down that alley where the shadow is, and you'll stay under there a lot.

Did you bring a sandwich?

Do you mean emotionally?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Jesus Christ.

Okay, because I can really do that.

No, that's why we're putting you back there.

I think about my dad.

Stop talking about your dad.

The person who killed him.

Are you capable of bloodshed today if we need it?

I don't know.

I just started thinking about it.

How the fuck does a guy watch his dad die on the streets and not turn out to be Batman, but is groveling about going into a dark?

Shut up.

Shut up.

God damn it.

We're fighting pretend Germans.

Oh, god damn it.

All right, look, fine.

You'll do a fence.

You'll do a fence.

Yes.

You'll do a fence.

Yeah,

I can't wait to hide behind a fence.

Hey.

Fuck yeah.

Fucking German fucks.

Alright, alright, look.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey.

I'm the fencer.

Hey, hey.

Fucking animals.

Hey, hey.

Are you going to be able to handle today?

Are you sure?

It's a roller coaster.

Yeah, but it's just...

Look, get your fucking head in the game.

Okay?

Yeah, just...

It's easy.

It's easy.

I went to a really dark place there.

Yeah, that's where I assigned you originally.

No, I meant.

I meant the other

fucked up, thinking of my dad again.

I think we got it.

The first bloodshed might have to come from Hank.

So they wore white armbands.

Cool.

So you can tell each other.

Always cool.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, cool.

You suck too.

Hey, you're also a piece of shit.

Hey, how are you?

Hey, what's up?

Their instructions were to pick up and arrest every, quote,

suspicious-looking individual.

You know what's great about the plan?

And I know they didn't do this, but literally, if at any point they had just been like, hey, we should also wear white armbands, their plan would have been completely fucking ruined.

They'd be like, yeah, fuck.

Yeah.

Sir, everyone's wearing white armbands.

Oh, fuck.

They'll kill each other.

Germans.

Fuck.

Shoot your friend.

Kill.

So they already had a list of people that the mining companies had given them.

Cool.

Not just strikers, but like storekeepers and contractors and anyone who's sympathetic to the strikers.

Okay, sure.

So even ex-Governor Hunt is on the list, but he wasn't actually there that day.

Okay.

By 6:30 a.m., there were 2,000 deputized vigilantes.

Jesus Christ.

That's a lot.

Yeah, that is.

It doesn't sound like a lot until you're walking the streets and you're like, that's a lot of vigilantes.

It's like beat it out here.

I mean, to me, like 12 is a lot.

12 is plenty.

It's like the Guardian Angels who are like, oh, boy.

Those fucking guys.

I'll tell you, you'll find if you go on Twitter and talk shit about the Guardian, there's a lot of people like, dude, I hear you, but they're okay.

Buddy,

when my grandpa cosplays with a beret.

Nobody with a beret should be listened to.

I know.

Just ever.

You're like, you're out.

The fuck out of here.

Especially in New York.

And then they're to parade.

And then they're in Subway right after.

Like, let me get a foot-long.

Hey, Guardian Angels.

Have your order before you get up to the counter.

What is spicy Italian?

Is that salami?

Is it Genoa?

No, it's you.

Oh, Christ.

The fuck?

This isn't a subway at all.

So they raided homes, they seized men on the street,

and they took guys as they were eating in restaurants and they were shopping in stores.

Each guy they asked if he was willing to work, and if he said no, he was taken.

Wow.

What if they said yeah?

I guess they go to work.

Sure.

You really to work?

Yeah, all right.

Ah, the fuck.

Hold on, we're gonna figure out a job.

This guy wants to work.

So that was the people who are not on the list that they did that to.

If your name's on the list, they didn't ask anything.

They just grab you.

Okay.

A man was eating breakfast when two vigilantes pushed through his front door, guns out.

Jesus Christ.

And they asked if he sympathized with the strikers, and he said yes, and he was taken away.

What the fuck?

It's like, yeah.

Eating waffles.

What?

You're coming with us.

Another guy didn't wake up from the knocks on his door, and so four armed men kicked in the door and yanked him out of bed.

Holy fuck.

His wife begged them to let him dress, but they dragged him outside in his nightgown.

Well, I mean, look.

That was what people wore.

It was just saying

there's a reason why we stopped, and it's events like this.

Come on.

I'm bringing it back.

I'm coming back with nightgowns.

Yeah.

Yeah, fuck yeah.

I'm fucking back in.

And sleeping caps.

I don't know.

Fuck you.

Sleeping caps are back.

The dumbest thing ever.

I'm sleeping like Curly from the Three Stooges.

I'm going to bed.

Where's my hat?

I'm going to bed with a nightcap, a nightgown, and I'm holding a candle as I do it.

Oh, Christ.

Are you going to shit in a chamber pot?

Yeah, I am.

Yeah.

I'm crapping in a chamber pot.

I'm fucking doing it.

Who does the sexy whistling?

Hey.

Yeah, they know it's hot.

Woo, boy.

I'm just a little bit more.

I'm wearing light blue, too.

So

if a little light hits me, you might see a thing or two.

Oh, you mean.

Yeah.

You mean it's see-through.

Yeah, yeah.

You can see the silhouette of the

junk, as it were.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'll hold the candle near it.

You'll see dong.

Yeah.

Now, when you're shitting in the chamber pot, does it hang inside or outside?

I put it over my head like a ghost.

There's a ghost shitting in your room.

Oh, honey.

Boom.

I'm making boom.

Oh, I got to do it.

I'm going nightgown.

Yeah.

I mean, I would, yeah, you have to.

I have to.

You got to make a video every night when you go to bed.

Every night?

Yes.

It's right on sign and off and then you sach it.

I'm assuming you're sachet.

Of course I am.

You sachet over to your bed.

And I like make 30 TikToks and it gets no likes and I'm like, I'm fucking pathetic.

What the fuck am I doing?

This is fucking crazy.

Look at nightgowns online.

Put it in the cart, beside later.

A union marshal who was, sorry, a U.S.

marshal who was there, quote, the move was not made against the IWWs alone, but against every man who has ever been known to give voice to his opinions openly.

Well, that's good.

Yeah.

That's good.

I thought they were disagreeing.

That's good.

It's everybody who has a thought.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's good.

Men who do not belong to any organization were picked up as well as members of the AFL.

So I love that the guys who,

the guys who had left the union and now hated

were also getting picked up.

We're now there like, you too, you're coming with us.

Like, wait, what the fuck?

No!

Yeah.

I fucking hate.

Oh, god damn it.

Shut the fuck up.

Will you work?

Yeah.

All right.

Come to my house.

What?

Yeah, I got some furniture I can't put together.

Hold on, are you the night guy, chamber pot guy?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm building myself a big bunk bed.

Christ, what does that even mean?

I said something flippantly and here we are.

I'm crapping in a bucket and I don't have any lights.

I wear a fucking hat to bed.

Fucking nuts.

Grocery store owners were arrested, quote, vigilantes took over stores, sold their goods, and fought with each other over the sharing of the remaining inventory.

Wow.

I mean,

I only like that from the, like, as a customer.

You walk in, you're like, I could completely shoplift today.

Yeah.

It's like the first year of the electronic checkout where you're like, all right, you fucking idiots.

Yeah.

Here we go.

I wouldn't say first year.

I would say last week with me also.

You gotta wrap it up.

They're watching.

Target was the only store that sold it, so what are you gonna do?

Fuck you, Target.

I agree.

Not probe Target.

They're figuring it out, I'm saying.

They can't figure out me.

The idea that there's a chance I might see your name on an arrest list for Target is awesome.

And then to know what you stole, it'd be great.

Seltzer.

It's like candles, ping-pong balls.

I'm like, this is pathetic.

Was he okay?

I didn't know he liked Mike's hard lemonade.

They were also just picking up people at random.

So really, yeah.

Yeah, everybody.

Yeah, they were anti-discrimination.

Yeah, yeah.

So Thomas English was a union member.

Okay.

Somebody English, all right?

Thomas English.

Some is English, yeah.

Go on.

At 7 a.m., someone...

What happened?

He fucking flipped you off, so I told him to go fuck himself.

I got your back, babe.

No, you don't.

Yeah, I do, babe.

I don't trust nightgowns.

I'll tell you what, if you were a nightgown and a nightcap, you and I could share a room finally.

Think of the hijinks, it's gonna be hilarious.

We'll find trapdoors in our room.

What?

Yes,

black and white.

What are you talking about?

We're gonna be silent film stars.

We're not

so

Thomas English is in his house and at 7 a.m.

Someone knocks on his door and he says, come in.

And three men enter and ask him if he is working.

And he said, no.

Interesting.

So they seized him, but would not say why.

They also grabbed his boarder, James Brew, who was an ex-miner.

Orson McRae of the Citizens Protective League and mine shift boss and three others went to his room.

People were in this place?

There's 17,000 people in this boarding place

in this boarding house.

Yeah, there's 17,000.

Okay, wow.

So these three guys go to James Brewer's room and order him outside, and so Brew just shot through the door.

Do you have a picture of Jim Brewer next?

I couldn't find it, but we finally have a hero.

And he killed Orson McRae.

Oh, shit.

All right.

Nice.

I don't know.

He has like a statue or something in Bisbee.

Like, they were like, there's our hero.

Not the Macredas, not the

James Brew, the good guy.

So the other three men then shot and killed Brew.

So he's dead.

By 7 a.m.,

by 7:30 a.m., a large group of men were lined up under armed guard in the plaza, and the sun is now already really hot because you guys fucking live here, which is the craziest.

Just imagine living in a desert during dystopia times.

What have you done?

Go to somewhere hot and wet.

You live underground.

It's dystopian.

Did you guys not know this is dystopian?

Yeah, yes, it's very dystopian.

Vegas exists so they can go there and be like, yuck.

It's the Vegas people who

they're like, eh, fuck you.

They're like, have you been to Dubai?

you guys you guys don't have people underground like they do in Vegas do you

do underground people live here too the fuck are you

not know about the underground people the fuck dude I just started one of these

thousands of people living underground in Vegas what they live in this storm oh because of uh Elon made the underground city

I love that he built tunnels and he put in a stoplight under there.

It's

what a great thing you've made here.

What an advancement.

Some guy just sitting in a stoplight.

It's literally like, there's rides at Disney that are better than that.

He's like, the future is so close.

Someone's going to be there.

And you see someone are going to be at Mars in 2026?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Holy fuck.

Next year, we're going to be at Mars.

Because he said today, he's not on kidding me.

It's so good.

So

7.30 a.m., a large group of men are lined up under armed guard in the plaza.

The sun is already hot.

So two women bring out a tub of water so they could drink, and guards kick the tub over before any of the men could drink it.

Quote, the sons of bitches don't get a drink.

Jesus Christ, that's right.

Dare you fucking drink water.

Those women with the tub are like, oh my god,

that was a lot of water.

Told you we should have done cups.

Just get one big trough.

All right, piggies.

A tub.

So, in rows of 10,

the men are marched two miles to Warren Ballpark.

Hey, you guys want to see a game?

Wait, where is it?

So they're being marched out of Bisbee to a ballpark that is

for some reason two miles away.

Sure.

You don't play baseball in this fucking town.

Yeah.

Okay.

So Sheriff Wheeler rode alongside in an open Ford car, which was owned and driven by Father Mandon, a Catholic priest.

Nice.

Father Mandin.

But how, just the priests are on the side of the assholes.

It's just always amazing to me.

Yeah, I know, yeah.

Although, yeah, what am I saying?

They're trying molesters.

So

no, that's not allegedly.

Yeah.

What a broad stroke I've done.

Half.

So, half a priest, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that's the pessimistic way of looking at it.

The optimist says the church is half full with non-molesters.

That's something to be proud of.

Yep.

So the father is driving alongside with the sheriff in the car, so the sheriff can yell at everybody, and he's screaming and swearing at them as they walk.

And right besides me, right besides Wheeler, in the priest's car, they've mounted a 7.62 millimeter Martin machine gun.

Holy fuck.

Who's German in this?

Jesus fucking Christ.

That's how Jesus would have done it.

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So there's about 2,000 guys.

There's three women in the ballpark stockade.

They were told if they cut all IWW ties and went back to worse, they would be be released.

Jesus Christ.

I mean,

they're the literal.

Okay, what the fuck?

They're held there for hours, and hundreds of men do recant and are allowed to leave and go back to work.

The women were also let go because the vigilantes were told they'd sue Phelps Dodge for mistreatment.

Oh, shit.

Well, I did not see that coming.

It's fucking crazy.

I didn't know they would do that.

What are they so mad about?

They're just in a pen.

It was a big deal.

They're in a hot pen.

Men who were known associates with the labor movement could not recant, and hundreds refused to go anyway.

They responded to the vigilantes.

Who gave them a kickball?

They turned a cat.

Oh, and they're a fun!

Look at these guys.

They responded to the vigilantes asking if they wanted to recant with cat calls, hoots, jeers, swearing, and songs.

I like that.

Obviously.

The cat calling's great.

Yeah.

You look pretty, Jimmy.

What?

Recant.

Oh, really?

You want me to recant over here?

Yeah, how you doing, sweet ass?

Stop it.

I like your jeans, Jimbo.

Recant.

Take off your belt, kid.

Jesus Christ.

Singing is great.

If I'm there, I'm swearing.

I'm just a swearing.

I'm singing.

I'm doing my own swing.

You're singing.

I'm over there going, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

There was a boy we all knew named a little Sam Rock.

Fuck!

He was the boy in wagger right around the clock.

Shit, Titpiss!

What a lad he was, and what a tongue on the boy.

Ball sack fuckers!

When people ask him what he were up to, he just say, I'm coy.

I like that one.

Fuck shit, you!

At 11 a.m., 23 cattle train boxcars arrived, and

they were forced on board.

I mean, what the fuck?

I'm not trying to be rude, but

they were like the ones who were like, you're the Germans.

Yes.

Yeah, they were like, you guys are the Germans.

You've got German tendencies.

Hold on, I know you brought up Germany.

Shut the fuck up, that's it.

Get the train.

Yeah, so they put them on trains.

There are so many.

I mean, we're not the Germans.

You are!

There are so many people,

it looks like Coachella.

Shocking.

Most boxcars had, quote, over three inches of manure on the floors.

Fucking Christ.

What the fuck?

Oh, man.

That's a lot of shit.

Yeah.

Ten miles east of Douglas, the train stopped and water barrels were put on the cars.

About 200 armed men watched.

The train, quote, while machine guns on two knolls guarded the station.

What in the fuck did they think was going to happen?

What are what are they?

What are they doing with the water?

They're putting it on the train so the guys actually, because they were like, oh, these guys all die.

They're gonna die.

Okay.

So there is like, but then they just have machine guns trained at them.

Yeah.

Just to be like, drink the water.

Yeah, drink the fucking water.

Shut the fuck up.

Hey, nightgown, pour it on the front of your gown.

That oh, boy.

Look at you.

Look at how hard his nipples are, hey.

Last time I wear this to bed.

You know, before this, wearing a night dress made a little more sense to me.

Wait, did you say night dress?

That's right.

I mean, night-like nightgowns better.

It's a little better.

It's a gown.

A gown.

I'm going to an event.

This is my nightgown.

I'm putting on my night skirt.

A nightgown is the crazy.

Oh, fuck.

So the train then leaves for Columbus, New Mexico, Mexico, 173 miles east of Bisbee, and they had to stand for the whole time in these packed airless cars in the July heat, which is how shed.

It's not that bad in July.

No, here it's quite moderate that time of year here.

Especially if you're standing on poop.

Yes.

You're going to be fine.

The water barrels were quickly drunk by all the thirsty men.

Quote, they stood in cow manure

over their shoe tops while weaker prisoners were allowed to sit in the filth oh you guys enjoy the water i'm gonna eat this ground chocolate

tommy

it's not bad i'll tell you what i don't know if i'm delirious or what but i'm loving the floor

after columbus the train went to hermanas new mexico arriving at 3 a.m on july 13th they've been without uh water and food at this point for 12 hours Fuck.

They were kept there for two days.

What the fuck is the plan?

In the boxcars while guards stood on top with guns, and they would occasionally shoot to intimidate them.

What is the plan?

What the plan?

Get them out of town.

But this, they're out of town.

Ah, fuck them.

Okay.

Keep the train going.

Just never stops moving.

Keep taking them places.

You boys want to get out and walk around?

It's turning into a bit of a cruise.

You guys like papaya?

Come on, this guy's got the best papaya.

Known Bisbee labor attorney William Cleary put out a statement describing the events.

Dodge Phelp official.

This is okay.

So he's the only guy that has put out any news to anybody.

That lawyer.

Okay.

Dodge Phelp officials have been censoring AP dispatches from Bisbee.

Quote,

they read every dispatch and decided what could or could not be sent out by Western Union.

Wow.

So it's basically kidnapping on a massive scale.

Yeah,

it's even beyond that.

When Cleary sent out his statement, the country finally learned what had been going on.

The New York Times, quote, Arizona ships 1,100 IWWs out in cattle cars.

See, even that headline,

Classic Times.

Yeah, it could use like a lot more information in the headline if you really wanted to get people.

Strikers go on tour of country.

The Times also called the Wobblies vagrants and did not mention that AFL members grocery store and restaurant owners were also deporting.

They love that shit.

They love that shit.

They've just got term buckets where they're like, are we pro or anti this?

Oh, okay.

Then they're rescuers.

The Times did publish part of Cleary's statement, which said that they were asking for $6 a day and that copper was selling at 14 to 15 cents a pound, and the miners had been very peaceful during the strike.

Right.

So, miners had been living in Bisbee for years and they had wives and kids and families.

And like,

some were military reserves.

Regular people, you mean?

Yeah.

Interesting.

Some were military reservists and they bought liberty bonds for the war.

Now they're being called traitors.

The Bieber Daily Review.

The Bieber Daily Review?

It's actually, yes.

It's his family.

Fucking crazy.

Is it?

No.

Wanted it so bad.

Yeah.

Yep.

The Bieber Daily Review was thrilled, quote, no longer does a blot remain on the

Bisbee.

Ah, nope, not trying that because you guys are

again.

Escutchin.

We believe in you, reading rainbow.

We believe in you, Dave.

We believe in you.

It's a scutche.

A scutche.

Whatever, I don't give a shit anymore.

Reading rainbow.

Don't swear on the show.

What does a scutcheon mean?

Reading rainbow.

Anybody?

What is it called?

A scutcheon?

She says.

A scutche?

She says, what?

What?

A shield.

A shield.

A shield?

Just say shield.

The fuck, we're Americans.

Oh, now you're pro-American, Oh, now you love us.

Set the trains on fire!

What the fuck?

What are you talking about?

Wobblyism has passed with the labyrinth of things discarded as a coat is shaken from the back, as a boil is lanced and cleansed of its contents.

Wow.

Without precedent in this or any other country or any other age was the occurrence of yesterday.

It marked a golden date on the calendar.

Holy date

when the law-abiding people of the community drove from their midst of the wobbly.

Wow.

So,

yeah.

Boy, Bieber's parents were fucked up.

Fucked up.

Grandparents.

Most papers around the country agreed with that.

That's fucking crazy.

No, it's not really.

I mean, it's not, but it's all about that.

It's fucking crazy.

Yeah.

No, co-signers.

They made fun of the vigilantes for taking it too far, though.

They'd be like, well, you guys, the train was a little bit much.

I mean, water, really?

And make him stand in shit.

Good lord.

But kidnap and just send around, yeah.

The New York Times said the sheriff went too far and was dangerous for making his own law, but also Sheriff Wheeler was, quote, on the right track when he'd instructed his deputies to arrest the wobbly men on charges of vagrancy.

Imprisonment was not the answer.

Imprisonment was the answer, not deportation.

Yeah, you've got to love how

much, like,

the traditionalists in this country are like, we were founded upon these rights, inalienable.

And they're like, but also, yeah, they should just go to jail right away.

We don't need to know what they did.

They don't need to have had a crime.

You could throw them out in the middle of the night while they're eating waffles or even in a nightgown, like this little weirdo over here.

I didn't know.

For further shows, any show after this, you should have to wear a nightgown.

Not gonna be a problem.

It'll be awesome.

On social media, people are like,

is he wearing that only now?

Hello.

Walking around like the Dalai Lama.

How are you?

Hello?

I'm a sheetman.

So the men who've been deported from drone to needles were allowed to return, but the Bisney, Bisbee guys, it's permanent.

They're not coming back.

That's it.

Yeah.

On July 4th, the Daily Review reported that at Hermanis, the men were threatened with death and bodily harm if they ever returned to Bisbee.

Happy Independence Day, everybody.

Quote, they will not be allowed to come back.

We have been slow to act, but once started, it is a finished fight.

The serious business of this district is the mining of copper ore, not the building of night schools of anarchism or idling on the streets or picketing public places and private works.

It's just so fucking pretty.

Someone hit that guy.

Night schools for anarchy.

What do you want to learn at night?

Fucking animals!

Night schools.

The Armada Sheriff wired the New Mexico governor warning, quote, serious serious trouble is threatened.

Yeah, because you just took.

Yeah, what the fuck you 1,200 dudes?

I just hit a wasp's nest with a stick.

The governor said the wobblies should be treated humanely, but not allowed to cause trouble.

He told the sheriff to feed them after learning that they were facing starvation.

Yeah.

Hold on, I'm telling you.

So you think we got to feed them?

Yeah.

Well, we did put them in box cars with tons of poop.

Well, and then we had them all put their pants in a pile and they swapped pants.

And then we played a game where we tried to guess whose pants was whose pants.

The only guy we knew was the one poor fellow who had to throw a nightgown in the pile.

That's a little bit.

It was very obvious.

That's the guy who sings, right?

Yeah, yeah, he's singing.

He was standing there naked while he was trying to find some pants.

That one got sad, honestly.

Maybe we get him a burger or something?

Yeah, they can't eat the poop.

We thought they could, but they can't eat poop.

Okay.

Okay, that's a bummer.

All right, well,

just having so much fun here.

Yeah, it is pretty fun.

Yeah, it's a hell of a time.

Every good thing got to come to an end, I guess.

I love you.

What?

Huh?

I say, what are we doing?

What the fuck just happened?

He also wired DC and told President Wilson to take charge.

Hmm.

Man.

Now,

AFL President Gompers.

So AFL President Gompers got so many letters complaining of government inaction that he told President Wilson government agencies were ignoring them or being hostile.

And Wilson told the Secretary of War to investigate.

And also Governor Campbell that he was worried about people taking the law into their own hands.

And then the governor just asked Sheriff Wheeler why the deportations happened.

Quote, I can protect law-abiding and peaceful citizens, but I cannot guarantee the technical rights of lawbreakers and criminals.

I would not endanger the lives of loyal American citizens in attempting to protect the Wobblies.

Wow.

I mean, we are so far gone.

Yeah.

Wilson had the military escort the deportees from Armanas to Columbus and put them up in a tent colony that was made for Mexican refugees during border raids.

Oh my god, we'll get rid of those.

A reporter quote: When the unshaved unshaved and unwashed crowd marched up to the refugee camp this afternoon, they presented the strangest sight.

Many were without hats.

Well now I'm against them.

Rules are rules.

Disgusting.

And they wore soiled handkerchiefs on their head to keep off their hearts.

They're fucking dying.

boy they look pretty unpresentable for a few guys who have been living in trains for five days

others limp from blistered feet while old men and the physically unfit had difficulty in marching the mile to the camp from the railroad they obey orders without comment and seem to have accepted their fate what the fuck awesome how many

oh fuck we're all going back to camps that is what it like the amount of times in this country where it's like we are the free place, we also have camps.

So there's camps if you're not doing what we say.

We got camps.

We got camps.

New York Times reporters said men were hopeful that they wouldn't be there long and thought the president would order them, would order they could go home.

Of course.

I mean, but of course, you'd be like, this is fucking nuts.

Yeah.

This can't keep going.

Yeah.

Day nine.

Yeah.

Quote, there's no information in camp upon which to base this supposition.

Yeah, because they thought this is crazy.

Yeah, they were like, it's unfathomable.

They were like, it can't be.

Ex-Governor Hunt investigated and reported that the deportees organized their own police force and elected an executive committee to represent them.

Quote, they are wholly unable to comprehend why their strike should be associated with the war or held by anyone to be an act of unfaithfulness to the government in its emergency.

Classic German reaction.

But we were just being cootie pies.

Whoopsie poops.

We made it whoopsie.

Collectively, they have suffered a great wrong, and most sacred principles of human liberty upon which our government is founded have been shockingly violated.

Yes.

America.

A bunch more.

On September 17th, 1917, when their rations were cut to half, the last deportees left the camp.

But now, how many days is that?

September 17th.

I mean, it's been a long fucking time.

Like what?

So July 12th.

So they've been there.

Holy fuck.

That's a while.

How long?

Which fuck?

July, August, September.

It's two months.

That's fucking crazy.

Two months.

That's all.

Just two months.

That's fucking nuts.

It's a vacation.

Like, they were just literally like, don't worry, they're going to come get us.

I know it's day 40, but this is fucking crazy.

At some point.

And then they're like, well, let's cut their food in half.

I'm not going anywhere.

Fuck.

I'll tell you what, I'm never wearing a nightgown again.

Because it's the worst outfit to take anywhere.

It's a bed ensemble.

I mean, it is a big hanky, which has come in handy.

Only a few were allowed to return to Bisbee, and only because their mining skills were badly needed.

Wow, that is fucking crazy.

The companies created a passport system between Bisbee and other towns.

A Bisbee passport?

Are you coming to Bisbee for a business or pleasure?

The fuck do you think?

Are you out of your goddamn mind?

What?

Quote, they hold court in the Copper Queen Dispensary where men are examined as to their right to stay in town, and all the crossroads are lined with Cossacks who examine everyone going or coming from town.

Wow.

We should give a shout out to the Copper Queen Dispensary as a sponsor.

I don't know if you guys do CBD.

Dave and I love this stuff.

You just take one of these little packets, you put in your water, you're going going to sleep like a goddamn baby in a nightcap.

Go ahead.

They would hold a kangaroo court, and anyone heading to Bisbee was stopped outside the city and taken before the court, which ruled whether or not they could stay, leave voluntarily, or go to jail.

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

Well, they fucked up.

They went on strike.

What do you want?

I want more money.

Bisbee.

Jesus.

I mean,

it's not like going to San Diego.

This is Bisbee.

Bisbee.

Bisbee's like, well, how long are you going to be staying here?

Isn't that where Stanhope lives?

Bisbee?

Yeah, it is where Stanhope lives.

Yeah, that's fucking that.

That actually finally makes sense.

Passports were issued by the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines.

You had to carry a passport at all times.

Hundreds of men went through the sheriff's court.

Quote, trials were secret and a verdict of deportation was promptly and forcibly executed by deputy sheriffs.

At the same time, the sheriff established guards at all entrances to the district who examined every person attempting to enter to exclude the camp from any stray wobbly that might drift in.

A stray wobbly.

Fuck yeah, that's terrifying.

It just sounds like a terrifying.

Yeah, okay.

Didn't matter how long they were away or if they had families in town, they were not allowed to enter.

They were immediately arrested for vagrancy, brought before the court, and encouraged to leave town or put in jail.

Fucking A.

Now, E.

So so Aya Zambri refuses to leave after coming from the Columbus camp, and he gets put in jail for three months, and they threaten to lynch him if he doesn't leave.

Wow.

So

all these guys who have been deported plead to President Wilson, and he sends a five-man commission out, and they hear testimony for five days in November.

And they severely criticize those responsible for the deportation.

It had been decided at a meeting on July 11th of my managers that this is what they do.

Minagers.

Minagers.

There's no justification, quote, the deportation was wholly illegal and without authority in law, either state or federal.

Okay.

There you go.

Yeah, well, I mean, there I go, kind of.

What the fuck took so long?

You know, we looked into it and we crunched the numbers.

And you can't do that.

Yeah,

you're not allowed to do that.

Who knew you couldn't just take half a town and put it on a train?

You can't take a town, train them to another place, and just keep them there for two months.

And now that that we know, we feel awful.

We lost our heads back there.

All actions had to cease, and

that those who took part would be prosecuted by the state.

And Congress should pass a law making it a crime so it didn't happen again.

Look, didn't they?

Congress is going to pass a law saying you can't put everybody on a train.

Haven't we...

Don't we already...

No, nobody knew.

Isn't that already insinuated?

How are you supposed to know you can't do that?

Now we know we're not going to do it again.

We didn't realize you weren't allowed to do that.

Nobody told us.

I'm sorry.

Good lord.

Knowing what we know now, that is a bit ridiculous.

The Department of Justice opened an investigation, and on May 15, 1918, 21 mining officials were arrested for conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate U.S.

citizens.

By the way, treason treason is not on that list.

Interesting.

Sheriff Wheeler was fighting in France, so he was not arrested.

He was what?

He was fighting.

He was in the war.

Okay.

He's fighting in France.

More Germans.

Everyone's a German but me.

The defense said no federal laws have been violated.

I agree with that.

Well, so did the court.

Fuck me.

What the fuck?

The Justice Department then appealed, and in late 1920, Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it was a state matter.

Oh, what the fuck?

You got to love government and courts in this country.

All this hubbub for all this, the United States of America.

And they were like, well, you decide.

We don't know.

We're little.

So obviously there was no prosecution.

There were civil suits filed over six million in civil suits.

So the first guy to come come up was Harry Wooten, who was a

miner, and

he was tried.

And he, sorry, he was a Phelps Dodge employee against the miners.

He was called the Loyalty League.

So, he was in a different group I didn't bring up, the Loyalty League.

Sure.

And so, they tried him and he was acquitted.

And then the jurors agreed the deportation quote had been a good thing.

Well, to to be in that room when they were deliberating.

It's great.

Yeah, it's just like, so we all agree that was pretty awesome what they did.

Everyone's cool with that?

All right, we're ready to go.

Other civil suit plaintiffs were then dropped.

A few settlements were reached out of court.

Married men with a kid got

$1,200.

Married men without kids got $1,000.

Single men got $500.

Fuck yeah, you could buy like a wagon.

$1,200.

Not gown money.

The President's Commission got agreements from management and the union not to interfere in the war effort by interrupting copper production.

Nothing about increasing war.

It's so funny that the reason to stop what you're doing is for war.

It's the most American shit ever.

Look, don't put our citizens in camp because we're actually fighting a war.

So we need the copper.

Could you chill?

Could you just chill?

So it guaranteed no Wobbly could take a militant stand by including the provision that, quote, no employment should be made available for IWW members

for other persons who had been guilty of disloyal utterances against the U.S.

The President Moyer, the AFL guy, hailed the agreement and threatened to cancel the charter of any local that turned it down.

Wow.

The mining companies rehired all that went on strike except the ones in a union.

Union power decreased in Arizona.

Why do you think that was?

I don't know.

That would continue until the New Deal when the major copper companies were at last organized.

The Brisbane deportations ended up creating a horrible precedent for the U.S.

democracy, especially for Mexican workers.

It led to the rationalization for removal, and it helped deportation become accepted as necessary to get rid of an unwanted population.

It can't wait.

I mean,

it always is so fucking hysterical that that is something that the white governments are like, we do that, we were here first.

It's like, if you trace it back a little bit further,

you might be on a train.

I'll be the Jeff Fox worthy of you might be on a train.

Then you just might be on the train.

So it becomes a tool when workers and owners were at odds, and then mass deportations of Mexicans happened during the 1930s.

And then, yeah, that's it.

And then nothing else, really.

And now it's fine.

We fixed it.

I hope there's a

I hope someone brought their right-winger friend.

No!

Fuck, fuck.

It's fine.

Oh, I'll tell you what, it's hard to take my faith in this country away, but

somehow you've done it.

Oh, that's so fucked.

That's just, it is.

It's always, it's the

never

changing kaleidoscope of bullshit that we just keep getting fed, where you're just like, ah, gosh, thank God that's over.

Never over.

We're just, it's just, it's all everything's a cicada.

It just has a minute where you don't hear about it, and then you're like, it's all right, we're doing what?

You're like, oh, we did that like 50 other times.

You just weren't here.

He was reading about it, but you were in a nightgown.

It's fine.

Everything's fine.

Oh, fuck.

That's the worst.

That's the worst picture of all.

This.

You're right.

You are right.

Not clapping.

Not clapping, by the way, Deb.

You could have just given them the money, just like we could just take away Elon's money and Bill Gates' money.

We can just take all their money and then they're, and then, what, 40 guys are fucked and we're all living good?

Yeah, I mean, that's really what it is.

No,

it is the idea.

Take away their fucking money.

I don't give a shit.

It is the idea.

No, I mean, literally, take up, no talk.

I mean, literally take away their money and leave them in barrels on the street.

Like,

that's.

How fucking...

Imagine just how much better society would be if you just had Bezos, Musk, all these fucking.

Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg, all of them, like, just 10 of them, on a train

in a pile of horse shit,

just firing a gun every 10 minutes.

And then making them and then making them like to share handfuls of water.

And you know who's in the nightgown on that train.

Me.

You guys, I live here.

Doing a little dance in the corner.

Hey,

aren't you the Facebook guy?

Everything's got seeds.

Well, I think it is crazy.

We'll get the fuck out of here, but it is crazy that

the solution is always to deport or vilify or blame.

And truly, if we just deported that one piece of fucking shit,

what a move.

How great would that be?

You could win a lot on deport Musk.

Oh, yeah.

You could go far if you were just like, if you just stuck in there everything they threw at you, you're like, my opponent's not going to deport Elon Musk.

I am going to do that.

I'm going to get him the fuck out of here.

He is going to Mars in 2026.

It's happening.

In In pieces.

In pieces.

We're going to chuck him out.

Today we send his stomach.

Thank you guys so much.

Appreciate it.

Thanks coming out.

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