#21 Whose America?: Prologue
The Martyr Made Podcast
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Working Conditions Are Deplorable
In 19 hundred, 200 men died in a utah coal mine when 24 kegs of black powder exploded. In 19 o two in brock townma chuses, 58 workers died. Another 150 were injured when the four story shoe factory in which they were working collapsed in flames on top of them,. trapping and burning dozens of them to death. I was walking through washington square when a puff of smoke issuing from the factory building caught my eye. I reached the building before the alarm was turned in. I learned a new sound, more horrible sound than description can picture. It was the thud of a speeding living body on a stone sidewalk. Thud dead. Thuddead.
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