Hello, my name is Taylor Alford and I attend Laguardia
Community College. This week in my Violence in American Art and Culture class
(ENN 195) we've discussed Headley's view on the Great Riots of 1877. Headley
mentions several principles of communism of which the rioters followed by.
There was this one passage in particular that interested me, "No! No
matter how needy your families may be you shall not do this work. Nobody shall
do it except on our own terms". The rioters were preventing other people
who are in desperate need of work to replace them under any means necessary.
Their actions are violations of people's right to work for whatever wage they
agree upon. Headley also states, “They may cut down the price of wages, but
that is not so criminal as to tear down houses and make a wreck of human
property”. He suggests that although the rioters believe their employers are
committing a crime against them morally, it is not considered an actual crime
compared to the chaos they have caused. It was somewhat unclear to me if
Headley was against the rioters or for them.
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