Depressing to see someone actively tooting about #gaza respond to one of my posts and denying #Uyghur#forcedlabor. Not the first time I've seen or experienced this.
Though, notably, I've yet to meet an actual #Palestinian who does this. It's nearly always western leftists.
Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Three thousand workers, mostly African-American, began construction on the Hawks Nest Tunnel in West Virginia. The employer cut costs by failing to provide safety equipment. Additionally, bosses forced the men to work 10-15-hour days, often at gunpoint, without breaks and without masks to protect themselves from the silicon dust. Consequently, hundreds of workers died of silicosis. Possibly over 1,000 people, one-third of the entire workforce, died from silicosis, in one of America’s worst cases of mass workplace mortality.