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g0ldie 02/12/22 12:57:58 PM #1: |
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/8/AAY0fDAAC6tg.jpg https://labor411.org/411-blog/a-1902-letter-from-trapped-coal-miner-to-wife-is-a-chilling-reminder-of-horrors-that-workers-faced/ edit: saw it posted on Imgur earlier --- https://imgur.com/mApEnf3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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cjsdowg 02/12/22 12:59:06 PM #2: |
Sad --- To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. W.E.B. Du Bois ... Copied to Clipboard!
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akura_integra 02/12/22 1:01:54 PM #3: |
Pretty disturbing how the penmanship gets worse as the letter goes on, probably due lack of oxygen. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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g0ldie 02/12/22 1:09:46 PM #4: |
yea, the lack of oxygen and desperation to get out his message before he falls unconscious --- https://imgur.com/mApEnf3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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BlackOmnimon 02/12/22 1:11:42 PM #5: |
What happened with the family later? Do his descendants still live? --- . ... Copied to Clipboard!
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g0ldie 02/12/22 1:19:32 PM #6: |
sorry, I couldn't find anything. it said he had six kids, one of whom he and his wife had already lost, and another (a 14 year old), who was in the mine with him. --- https://imgur.com/mApEnf3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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g0ldie 02/12/22 5:09:22 PM #7: |
bump --- https://imgur.com/mApEnf3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VipaGTS 02/12/22 5:15:33 PM #8: |
akura_integra posted... Pretty disturbing how the penmanship gets worse as the letter goes on, probably due to lack of oxygen.Maybe but my handwriting does the same thing after writing something that long >_> --- "I devour urine just like my Portland Trailblazers, with piss poor defense." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Talib_21 02/12/22 5:17:31 PM #9: |
Damn thats sad --- Denver Broncos Kansas Jayhawks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GiftedACIII 02/14/22 8:04:08 AM #10: |
BlackOmnimon posted... What happened with the family later? Do his descendants still live? I thought they had just recently found that letter too but reading the article it looks like it was found right after they found the bodies back then. --- </topic> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Solar_Crimson 02/14/22 8:05:43 AM #11: |
As bad as employers can be now, it's extremely chilling how callous they were back then. --- I often wonder if we are growing as a people... or in fact, regressing. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Unsugarized_Foo 02/14/22 8:08:21 AM #12: |
That's really clean paper --- "All I have is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for anyone!"-Tony Montana ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Southernfatman 02/14/22 8:18:35 AM #13: |
Some certain people want to return to stuff like this. --- http://i.imgur.com/hslUvRN.jpg When I sin I sin real good. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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gunplagirl 02/14/22 8:23:36 AM #14: |
Solar_Crimson posted... As bad as employers can be now, it's extremely chilling how callous they were back then.Literally hiring militias and the cops to gun down striking miners. :( --- tfw no big tiddy goth vampire gf who lactates blood - viewmaster_pi ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tom Clark 02/14/22 8:25:44 AM #15: |
That's genuinely upsetting. --- http://i.imgur.com/6eF0W.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Unsugarized_Foo 02/14/22 9:58:04 AM #16: |
Solar_Crimson posted... As bad as employers can be now, it's extremely chilling how callous they were back then. And the line that separates society today from the hardships of nature is still pretty fragile. A few good fuck ups and were back to majority of people rough necking to get back to comfort for our children, muchless the current generation --- "All I have is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for anyone!"-Tony Montana ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Naysaspace 02/14/22 10:02:29 AM #17: |
I bet the management team was ok though. --- https://i.imgur.com/XQlpQEo.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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