todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, July 12, 1917: In what would become known as the Bisbee Deportation, about 1,300 striking mine workers are kidnapped by 2,000 vigilantes, held at a local baseball park, and then loaded onto cattle cars and transported 200 miles for 16 hours through the desert without food or water. The workers were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee.

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Today in labor history, July 12, 1917: In what would become known as the Bisbee Deportation, about 1,300 striking mine workers are kidnapped by 2,000 vigilantes, held at a local baseball park, and then loaded onto cattle cars and transported 200 miles for 16 hours through the desert without food or water. The workers were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee.

Posted at 4:50 PM - July 12, 2012. source.