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DenaliDemocrat

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15. My family was there
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 12:06 AM
Nov 2021

My great grandfather and great uncles had a bounty put on their head by Rockefeller for helping the miners. Yet they say he was a “great” man.

And miners weren’t paid “low wages”, they BBC were paid in scrip - currency only good at Rockefeller’s store. They paid rent to live in company housing. They were enslaved.

Rockefeller also had 4 women and 9 children burned alive. The militia caught a young boy, tied him to a wagon, road around and tortured him - cutting off some fingers hoping his wails would intimidate the miners.

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