100. If You Love Communism So Much, Move to St. Louis

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

This week, David hosts and teaches Madeline all about the 1877 Train-Workers Strike and how it led to St. Louis being a commune for like three or four days?

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

http://tinyurl.com/ymzv3xas

SOURCES:

Phililp Foner, The Great Labor Uprising of 1877

Robert Bruce, 1877: Year Of Violence

Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream

Leon Fink, Workingman’s Democracy

Kevein Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers

Anthony Bimba, The Molly Maguires

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor

Mark Kruger, The St. Louis Commune of 1877

Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. And David,
0:30.9	this is an exciting episode because it's our first episode back after my book tour. I know. How was it?
0:36.9	It was really, really good. I didn't go to many places.
0:41.1	I was actually kind of surprised, but we went to Chicago, Dallas, Austin, L.A., Portland, and Seattle.
0:48.9	It was so good. Everybody was really, really nice. There were so many people at every single event.
0:52.9	I think that there was between 100 to 300 people at every event. And everywhere I went, they said they had to pull out
0:58.1	extra chairs. It was standing room only some places. Somebody in Seattle said it was the biggest event
1:03.0	they'd ever seen in the space. The people in Austin said it was maybe one of the biggest events
1:07.5	that they had done as well. Remind me where you were in Seattle?
1:11.5	Oh, at Elliott Bay Book Company.
1:13.2	Oh, I like Elliott Bay.
1:14.3	Did you go to the cafe upstairs?
1:16.6	No, but so their event space is downstairs, but we had so many people we couldn't
1:21.4	fit in the event space.
1:22.7	It would have been like a fire hazard.
1:24.2	So they had to just do it in the general area before.
1:28.1	Yeah, which was really cool.
1:29.5	No, the Elliott Bay book people were so nice.
1:32.3	And somebody who was working the event, they had family from Fresno.
1:37.1	And I was like, my goal by the end of this is to make you interested, like Fresno,
1:41.5	like maybe interested in it, maybe like a little more.
1:43.5	But yeah, a lot of people
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