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Flames of Discontent

The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

By: Gary Kaunonen

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Flames of Discontent

The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

By: Gary Kaunonen

On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region’s, if not the nation’s, most contentious and significant battles between organized labor and management in the early twentieth century. Flames of Discontent tells the story of this pivotal moment and what it meant for workers and immigrants, mining and labor relations in Minnesota and beyond. Drawing on previously untapped accounts from immigrant press newspapers, company letters, personal journals, and oral histories, historian Gary Kaunonen gives voice to the strike’s organizers and working-class participants. In depth and in dramatic detail, his book describes the events leading up to the strike, and the violence that made it one of the most contentious in Minnesota history. Against the background of the physical and cultural landscape of Minnesota’s Iron Range, Kaunonen’s history brings the lives of working-class Finnish immigrants into sharp relief, documenting the conditions and circumstances behind the emergence of leftist politics and union organization in their ranks. At the same time, it shows how the region’s South Slavic immigrants went from “scabs” during a 1907 strike to full-fledged striking members of the labor revolt of 1916. A look at the media of the time reveals how the three main contenders for working-class allegiances—mine owners, Progressive reformers, and a revolutionary union—communicated with their mostly immigrant audience. Meanwhile, documents from mining company officials provide a strong argument for corruption reaching as far as the state’s then governor, Joseph A. A. Burnquist, whose strike-busting was undertaken in the interests of billion dollar corporations. Ultimately, anti-syndicalist laws were put in place to thwart the growing influence of organizations that sought to represent immigrant workers. Flames of Discontent raises the voices of those workers, and of history, against an injustice that reverberates to this day.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452955794

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A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country

By: Gary Kaunonen

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A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country

By: Gary Kaunonen

The copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours. The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the 1913–14 Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the three major mining companies in the region took a particularly nasty turn on Christmas Eve, 1913, at a party for strikers and their families organized by the WFM. As many as 500 people were in the Italian Benevolent Society hall in Calumet, Michigan, when someone reportedly shouted "fire." There was no fire, but it is estimated that 73–79 people, more than 60 of them children, died in the stampede for the exit. Against this dramatic backdrop, Gary Kaunonen tells the story of Finnish immigrants to Copper Country. By examining the written record and material culture of Finnish immigrant proletarians-analyzing buildings, cultural institutions, and publications of the socialist-unionist media—Kaunonen adds a new depth to our understanding of the time and place, the events and a people.

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MSU Press

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1628951540

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Community in Conflict

A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy

By: Gary Kaunonen,Aaron Goings

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Community in Conflict

A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy

By: Gary Kaunonen,Aaron Goings

A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received national attention and garnered the support of luminaries in organized labor like Mother Jones, John Mitchell, Clarence Darrow, and Charles Moyer. The hope of victory was overshadowed, however, by violent incidents like the shooting of striking workers and their family members, and the bitterness of a community divided. No other event came to symbolize or memorialize the strike more than the Italian Hall tragedy, in which dozens of workers and working-class children died. In Community in Conflict, the efforts of working people to gain a voice on the job and in their community through their unions, and the efforts of employers to crush those unions, take center stage. Previously untapped historical sources such as labor spy reports, union newspapers, coded messages, and artifacts shine new light on this epic, and ultimately tragic, period in American labor history.

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1628950382

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A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country

By: Gary Kaunonen

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A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country

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Community in Conflict

A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy

By: Gary Kaunonen,Aaron Goings

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A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy

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Flames of Discontent

The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

By: Gary Kaunonen

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The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

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The Killing Game

By: Gary Webb

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The Killing Game

By: Gary Webb

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall. He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life’s work outside of Dark Alliance, and it’s an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609801431

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Drive-by

By: Gary Rivlin

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Drive-by

By: Gary Rivlin

In this compassionate study of a drive-by shooting, Rivlin examines the history of the victims, their families, and their impoverished living conditions.

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Macmillan

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0805029214

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Nine Days in Union

The Search for Alex and Michael Smith

By: Gary Henderson

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Nine Days in Union

The Search for Alex and Michael Smith

By: Gary Henderson

Gary Henderson is a reporter for the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was one of the first journalists to arrive in Union after Susan Smith reported the kidnapping of her two sons, 14 month-old Alex and 3-year old Michael. He was the last reporter to interview the 23-year-old mother before her confession...NINE DAYS IN UNION - The Search for Alex and Michael takes you behind the scenes with Henderson and Herald Journal photograher Mike Bonner during the nine day search for these little boys. The newspaper's coverage of the event won the South Carolina Press Association's Award for In-Dept Reporting for 1994 and The New York Times Chairman's Award. 148 pages, 50 photos, 6" x 9".

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1885354002

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Tarricone

A Death on Canyon Road

By: Gary Leon Zimmer

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A Death on Canyon Road

By: Gary Leon Zimmer

In 1976 Renee Curtiss met a man thirty years her senior, a charismatic local businessman named Joseph Tarricone. She would have an ongoing relationship with Joseph that would entail both business and romance. It would begin and flourish in one state and end tragically in another.

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Gary Leon Zimmer

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1532378106

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