LesGuvment, Sand Springs (9/7/2009 6:25:04 AM)

Thanks,Randy for for the great article.

Gramps, (9/7/2009 7:26:21 AM)

Peasant Revolts happen when people have nothing to lose.

"In July [1931], 300 jobless marched on shopkeepers in Henryetta, Oklahoma to demand food, insisting they were not begging and threatening to use force if necessary. After several public figures intervened, the issue was settled without violence. By 1932, organized looting had become a nationwide phenomenon. Most often, shopkeepers tried to avoid the bad publicity of incidents by refusing to call the police"

I. Bernstein, The Lean Years, p. 422

my view, Sand Springs (9/7/2009 7:35:54 AM)

I had a great-uncle who was a member of the Green Corn Party, he was a Socialist and was jailed during WWI.

He had two sons one became a lawyer and another became a bank president. His brother my grandfather fought in France during that war.

I remember my mother telling me once that her uncle wasn't really a Socialist but actually a Communist. She also told me that they had a lot of good ideas for the working class, as they were fitting them for a yoke.

UltraVi, (9/7/2009 8:49:27 AM)

Where we are right now as a nation, I believe, is directly related to conservative politicians, from Nixon to the Bushes, legislating unions out of a viable voice. Now corporations dictate national policy and see where we are now. History does repeat itself and we humans don't learn from it. Greed, disregard for the value of honest, hard work; sound familiar? The Reagan years were what caused our retirement plans to disappear, the years of deregulation, the decade that fed into CEOs and Boards of Directors granting huge bonuses for downsizing a company and laying off employees.

oldrustytulsa, Tulsa (9/7/2009 8:49:48 AM)

Of course now with the internet, and simple mass communication, our government is more afraid of the US citizens than foreign countries.Wheres the fence?

Eagle 4, Tulsa (9/7/2009 8:56:46 AM)

Like most Liberals, they were just Conservatives ahead of their time. I guess they considered the livestock dipping tanks to be the bathtubs of the conservatives!

Nice one, Randy. Now do one on the Race Riot and what it has caused besides a controversial hole in the ground on Greenwood.

Woofenburger, Hominy (9/7/2009 9:01:16 AM)

Thanks Randy,

Very educational and interesting.

soonernow, (9/7/2009 10:56:31 AM)

UltraVi, I think you have your story a little mixed up...Carter, not Reagan was the beginning of the current chaos we're experiencing now..His
liberal policy on home loans to anyone who could take a breath was the beginning of this whole mess..Of course, it was magnified by Clinton and his so-called phamtom balanced buget and surplus..Reagan was the only real president we've had in the last 50 years!

Fred, Tulsa (9/7/2009 12:17:19 PM)

A wonderful read. There is so much history that students can no longer study because they are having to learn the possible answers to the tests they will be taking.
The late Danny Goble who taught history at TCC always included these wonderful stories about how workers were trying anything they could do to get some basic rights. These rights we take for granted but people had to die to give them to us.

okie ridgerunner, Small Country Town State Line (9/7/2009 1:07:34 PM)

Soonernow, WRONG. Reagan was one of our worse presidents. He even said low wage earners lied about the money they made and could not live on what they said they had coming in. and people with low incomes should be dead. a lot of you have put that totally out of your mind.but it is true.

okie ridgerunner, Small Country Town State Line (9/7/2009 1:08:33 PM)

Great Article. interesting history.

Fred, Tulsa (9/7/2009 1:38:01 PM)

I had great difficulty trying to send this to my Facebook friends. When you go to share and select Facebook, nothing happens. I get the feeling that some or one of your on page animated goodies is causing things to hang up.
I had to swipe across the article from to to bottom, copy it, and then paste it onto my Facebook Homepage. Low and behold the article came in as one that could be used as soon as I copied and then pasted the address of the article from the address bar.

You guys at "The World's" site need to try to use these share things and make sure they work.
Thanks. I appreciate what you have labored to bring us. I just wanted to bring this to your attention, OK?

UltraVi, (9/7/2009 5:22:57 PM)

soonernow, I understand Jimmy Carter has been a whipping boy for the GOP for many years. Thank progressive minds over the years who have demanded safe workplaces, paid vacations, pensions, and all those awful benefits we now have. John Kenneth Galbraith once said: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercies in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." Bernie Madoff, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Exxon-Mobil, and the CEOs of health insurance companies fit that description.

ronnie, (9/7/2009 7:14:54 PM)

i wont talk about your grammer cause i do it to.
but i will talk about your choice of presidensel praise. you know better than that, if you dont, you need some learning.

Fred, Tulsa (9/7/2009 11:06:13 PM)

Thank you dustyoutlaw, Your words are good and true. I am not a big fan of Mr. Iran Contra. He ignored the dangers of HIV and AIDS and blew it off until it was such a world problem that it had to be dealt with after in had become an epidemic.

And "grand old partier", party on. If the ubra-conservatives stop our Nation from having a National Health Care Policy, there won't be many Right wing Republicans back after the next election. I have been a Republican all of my voting life, but something very strange has happened to this party. I never changed, but this party has slipped so far to the reactionary region it is frightening. I am still here. I will wait until they come back. I don't vote for anyone who drifts away from the center.
I guess I am an old sailor or an old pilot. The craft works best when we stay in the center. We sail straight and we fly straight.
Good evening, i am out of here.

imightbewrong, tulsa (9/8/2009 9:49:49 AM)

The unions did do a great job in their time.....that was when people were uneducated and were kept in "their place". In today's society, people are more informed and can stand up without fear of reprisal. The only thing unions are good for now is to fatten the wallets up for the leaders and to make sure that they are getting their dues on time and that everyone agrees with them or they will make sure that you do what they want....intimidation. Fair pay for fair work, but fair pay for no work??? Come on...get off of welfare and get a job. You should have to go to 10 interviews a week and if you decline a job, then you don't get your welfare check. Dang libs

D.Boone, (9/8/2009 1:39:13 PM)

imightbewrong,is living in La-La Land,and must be involved with the"Chamber of Slavery"

imightbewrong, tulsa (9/8/2009 4:59:40 PM)

Why am I living in La-La Land???? Is is too much to ask that people work instead of getting government handouts. Pretty bad when habitual welfare leeches teach their kids the ins and outs of having kids so that they do not have to work. Also how to use their wic cards to buy things and then cash them in to get the cash.....Get a job or get the heck out....and slinging crack or meth doesn't count as having a job.

mayor_maynot, Tulsa (9/8/2009 7:56:08 PM)

The only good thing about Regan was GOOD BY. Regan was the most evil dastardly president we have ever had.

The Iran Contra Scam Noriega Oliver North

Smokescreen by Nancy (war on drugs.)

Whole Republican party a bunch of scammers

Bliss, Okc (9/10/2009 6:14:15 PM)

It's still horrible to live here poor. The Republicans rape and steal from the poor just to get richer. I'm ready for a civil war to get rid of them.