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The socialists weren't alone in their struggles against the inequities of the gilded age.  They were joined by the unionists and the populists, but there was a difference between the two.  The socialists by and large included women and blacks and hispanics in their cause, the unionists by and large did not.  The socialists cry was the oppressors  must be defeated if we are to be free,  The cry of the populists was we are oppressed, but we only care about our personal (white male) oppression and once we improve our position then the hell with everybody else. 

And once they were allowed to have unions big business still existed and it was not to be trusted, but they did have their unions and they could be trusted.  Maybe not all that much because the union leaders themselves had become fatcats, and many of them were not loathe to strike a sweetheart deal with big business as long as there was something in it for themselves, and when the racketeers came knocking they found a pretty open door. 

In The Irishman, as in real life I think, Hoffa was Irish (actually half Irish I just learned from a quick wiki peek) and he did not like all those Italians and he took a shine to Richard Nixon, certainly no friend of labor.  But I guess that was an aberration because in later days it was the union leaders that held with the democrats while the unionists themselves went to the republicans.  They were sitting pretty on their fat contracts and felt more threatened by minorities than big business.  Well we see what became of them at the tender mercies of the republicans.

Colleges were originally the institutions of religions and of the wealthy.  When they crossed the pond it was the same way.  Grammar and high schools came later.  Seems like kind of a patchwork thing but by the 1850s we had free public education.  Sounded like a good idea.  If the kids learn how to read and write they can read about George Washington and they will be able to conduct business better and isn't business the business of this country?  Except for paying for it there wasn't much of a controversy in it.  Then came the land grant colleges, and then in September of 1963 Uncle Ken began his education at the University of Illinois.

To be continued.

Now that I have discovered that if I hover my cursor over the top of the blue bar I can get the numbers I have become a fan of the site that Old Dog discovered.  At the time he spoke of seven day intervals, but it seemed more irregular to me at the time.  Still I kept an eye on it and look at the last three weeks.  The Sundays are low, which makes sense because things are generally short handed on Sundays, and then it shoots up on Monday which makes sense if you consider that some Sunday deaths are not included until Monday.  Generally after Mondays it goes down but not in a regular pattern.  I don't know. Has Old Dog been following this.  Does he have any ideas?