Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then began the ugliest rioting of the strike. Down on the "Social" district, a mile from Woonsocket's business centre, bore a howling mob of hoodlums, some 1,000 strong. For three hours the town was theirs. Roaring up & down streets, they smashed, splintered, looted...
...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
...undertakings, serving as a club to beat down wages which are always threatening to destroy profits. But with the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion," with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey's charts and figures the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, despite the claims of the boomtime-era bankers and statesmen, or the promises of Niraism, is tragic, but under the system unavoidable. In a chapter called "The Crisis of the American Dream," Author...
...Okey O'Dell hitchhiked back to McGuffey, sought his Brother Elizah and a .38 revolver, barricaded himself and a party of friends into his house. They shouted at a growing mob outside: "The only way we'll leave is to go as corpses...
...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty as a nation of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder of men. . . . Cleanse our hearts, we beseech Thee, of the dark sin of race prejudice...