Gordon Riots Depicted by Charles Green |
June 2, 1863 – Backed by three gun boats, Harriet
Tubman and her forces freed 750 slaves and set fire to the plantations from
which they were liberated. (From the Daily
Bleed)
June 2, 1906 –U.S. rangers arrived at Cananea,
Sonora, killing 22 striking Mexican miners. (From the Daily
Bleed)
June 2, 1916 – The IWW (Industrial Workers of the
World) Mesabi Iron Range strike began in Minnesota. The Western Federation of
Miners (WFM), which organized the 1907 Mesabi Range Strike, was uninterested in
organizing miners in 1916, leaving a vacuum that the much more radical IWW
gladly filled. The Wobblies sent many of their top organizers to help and
succeeded in recruiting many of the people who served as strikebreakers in 1907
to join the current strike. Carlos Tresca, an IWW leader, was arrested for
murder in conjunction with the strike, but was released without trial. Tresca
went on to oppose Mussolini and the fascists, as well as the Stalinists in the
USSR. He was assassinated in 1943. The Mesabi Strike was suppressed violently
by police and vigilantes, with numerous strikers being jailed. The struggle was
a precursor to the infamous labor deportations, in Bisbee, Arizona in July,
1917, in which 1,300 Wobblies, their supporters, and even innocent bystanders,
were rounded up, forced into cattle cars, and dumped in the desert after 16
hours without food or water. (From the Daily
Bleed, Minnesota Historical Society and Wikipedia)
June 2, 1919 – Anarchists
carried out a series of coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States,
damaging the homes of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who had launched the
first Red Hunt against unionists, commies and anarchists, as well as then
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Rooselvel. (From the Daily
Bleed)
June 2, 1921 – The IWW hall in Tampico was raided.
In response the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) called a general strike,
winning the right to have their hall. (From the Daily
Bleed)
June 2, 1952
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal for President Truman to have
the Army seize the nation’s steel mills to prevent a strike. 600,000 CIO steelworkers immediately began a 53-day strike.
(From Workday Minnesota and the Daily
Bleed)
June 2, 1962 – 7,000 Russian workers marched in Novocherkassk to protest wage cuts and price increases. The military killed at least 24. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 2, 1977 – Native American activist Leonard
Peltier was sentenced in Fargo, North Dakota, to two consecutive life terms for
the killing of two FBI agents, despite the fact that there was no evidence
linking him to the deaths. (From
the Daily Bleed)
June 2, 1989 – 10,000 soldiers were blocked from
entering Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, by 100,000 citizens protecting
pro-democracy students. (From the Daily
Bleed)
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