Affray at Brownsville, Tex


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Document contains no congressional committee hearings testimony.










Histories of American Army Units


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Strikebreaking and Intimidation


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This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts--particularly college students, African American men, the unemployed, and men associated with organized crime. Norwood also considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter mercenary violence. The book covers a wide range of industries across much of the country. Norwood explores how the early twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald, sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring, as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger, transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the present.




Proceedings of a General Court-Martial


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Excerpt from Proceedings of a General Court-Martial: Convened at Headquarters Department of Texas, San Antonio, Tex., February 4, 1907, in the Case of Maj. Charles W. Penrose, Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry Q. Which way does our house face, Mr. Rendall - A. It faces on Elizabeth street, to t e south, or west, rather, and on the Govern ment reservation to the east, and to the north - that is, the room does - the house faces only on Elizabeth street, which is southwestern actually, because the town of Brownsville is not laid off east, west, north. And south diagonally with the compass. Q. But the front of your house is toward Elizabeth street - A. Yes, sir; but there is only one window on the Elizabeth street side of the room I was in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.