Talk:Grabow riot

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I will probably move the section Other abandoned towns and communities at some point but related searches led me to include it here. I will, after more research and confirmation, seek a rename of the article to reflect Graybow. Otr500 (talk) 23:10, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I deleted the section: "The events of that day impeded the progress of the organized labor movement in the South by as much as fifty years." The information I am adding and sources, including inline, prove the opposite. Otr500 (talk) 23:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Reorganize
I reorganized some and removed references to Socialism. Although the reading was not bad there was no relevence to this article. Because workers sought to better themsilves does not mean they were seeking a socialist form of life or living. Unions had, and has, a place in society. Any link between the relationship of the "rise and fall" of labor unions, the timber industry, and socialism, especially in Louisiana, was not resourced so would be pure conjecture, POV, or both.

The Wikipedia article on socialism in fact makes the following statement,
 * Marxist and non-Marxist social theorists agree that socialism developed in reaction to modern industrial capitalism, but disagree on the nature of their relationship. In this context, socialism has been used to refer to a political movement, a political philosophy and a hypothetical form of society these movements aim to achieve. As a result, in a political context socialism has come to refer to the strategy (for achieving a socialist society) or policies promoted by socialist organizations and socialist political parties. Examples include characterizing socialist movements by the class struggle or revolutionary activity, or associating socialism with trade-union organization(s) and various forms of social activism, all of which have no connection to socialism as a socioeconomic system or mode of production. Otr500 (talk) 14:05, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

What I have done
Hi all, first, I am in process of copyediting this article. I have deleted a section which I am now pasting here in case author thinks it's important. To me, it has no use here, if intending to keep I would say put at the bottom of article. We already mention in the opening section the two styles of name. Readers are now aware...

Spelling Although some spell the name of the community Grabow it is spelled Graybow in many history accounts  and on some maps. A mapquest search will show the community of Grabow on Grabow road but also has the spelling Graybow highway.

Sometimes the spelling of a name or location can be misspelled and if left uncorrected this will become the known spelling even if incorrect.

(MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 11:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC))


 * I have now deleted the under section from the section on Leather Brithces, why you may ask? Because I see no relevance to the story of the man himself. Better to put somewhere into the article where it can better help set a context for the wars.

A timber worker, other than a Foreman or Sawfiler (that received better pay), was provided a place to stay, which included a house if married, but the pay was not great at all and the hours were long.

"Most of the mills built up to the early 1900s had one distinction, being that pay was delivered by Company scrips. Most of the mills had the necessities of life and also for the most part amenities that could be found in town. The drawback was that the "company money" was only good at the mill where the worker was employed. The Union hands were fighting for improved pay and conditions at sawmills."

(MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 12:39, 23 August 2012 (UTC))

A different man or the same man?
If Ben Myatt was the same man as Leather Britches, why is that subsection called A different man? If Myatt was a different man, why is he in the article at all? --Stfg (talk) 16:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Citations needed
Most of this material is not cited to sources, and all of it needs to be, at least one cite per paragraph.Parkwells (talk) 13:39, 26 June 2019 (UTC)