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DYNAMITE: A Century of Class Violence in America 1830-1930

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ISBN 10: 
0 946061 03 3
Number of pages: 
224
First published: 
1931 (revised by the author in 1934)
This edition: 
1984
Blurb: 

"DYNAMITE! Of all the good stuff, that is the stuff! Stuff several pounds of this sublime stuff into an inch pipe . . . plug up both ends, insert a cap with a fuse attached, place this in the immediate vicinity of a lot of rich loafers who live by the sweat of other people’s brows, and light the fuse. A most cheerful and gratifying result will follow. In giving dynamite to the down trodden millions of the globe science has done it’s best work. . ." -- From Alarm, 21 February, 1885

'DYNAMITE!', written in the 1930s and now revised, recounts a fascinating, and largely forgotten, history of class struggle during America’s industrial beginnings. It is the story of brutal exploitation, massacres and judicial murders directed against workers. It is also the story of how they responded; at first with peaceful strikes, but later with dynamite and corruption. The author shows how a level of violence unheard of in Europe was the inevitable result of the American situation.

Contents: 

         Part one: Mild Beginnings
  1.    Impudent conduct
  2.    The Molly Maguires
  3.    The great riots of 1877

         Part two: “Dynamite . . . that’s the stuff!”
  4.    Propaganda by the deed
  5.    The stage is set
  6.    The Haymarket bomb
  7.    The movement becomes a racket
  8.    Criminals join the class war

         Part three: War begins in earnest
  9.    The Homestead strike
10.    Coxey’s army
11.    The Debs rebellion
12.    Violence in the west
13.    The reddening dawn of the 20th century
14.    To hell with the constitution
15.    The murder trial in Idaho
16.    The wobblies

         Part four: The McNamara affair
17.    Class war: 1905-1910
18.    The AF of L dynamiters
19.    The Los Angeles dynamite plot
20.    The explosion – and after  
21.    Frame Up!
22.    The trial
23.    Confessions
24.    The AF of L looses it’s militancy

         Part five: Massacres frame ups and judicial murders
25.    Slaughter east and west
26.    The Mooney-Billings case
27.    The great steel strike
28.    The Centralia outrage
29.    Sacco and Vanzetti

         Part six: Rackets and sabotage
30.    The beginnings of racketeering
31.    Racketeering as a phase of class conflict
32.    Sabotage and striking on the job

         Postscript
         Index