{"id":340951,"date":"2017-12-24T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/guthrie-dylan-confront-a-system-that-kills-its-own\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T17:59:44","slug":"guthrie-dylan-confront-a-system-that-kills-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/guthrie-dylan-confront-a-system-that-kills-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Guthrie &#038; Dylan Confront a System That Kills Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98480\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98480\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-4.52.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"364\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Xavier Badosa | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe who controls the past controls the future,\u201d wrote George Orwell in\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>. Daniel Wolff doesn\u2019t want to control the past, but he does want to paint an accurate picture of it. He does it well in his new book,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062451693\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(HarperCollins).<\/p>\n<p>Wolff\u2019s story revolves around the Kewanee Peninsula\u2013the northernmost part of Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula\u2013which once had some of the richest copper deposits on earth. Seven thousand years ago, Native Americans were able to mine it well enough to make tools. The advent of modern technology made the mines more productive, but the work was far from easy.<\/p>\n<p>The early twentieth-century work day at the Calumet &amp; Hecla mines on the Kewanee Peninsula \u201cbegan by riding a thousand feet down into ill-lit, poorly ventilated mining shafts. There, the workers spent ten hours manning \u2018widow makers,\u2019 170-pound drills that they held overhead, gouging out rock in search of copper\u2026While the company\u2019s stockholders received 400 percent returns on their investment and the general manager of the mine got a yearly salary of $125,000, workers were paid under a dollar a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Christmas approached in 1913, the workers had been on strike at C&amp;H in Calumet, Michigan for almost five months. The ladies auxiliary of the union organized a Christmas party at Italian Hall for the miners\u2019 kids. They sang songs and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/22\/music-and-mayhem-guthrie-dylan-confront-a-system-that-kills-its-own\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Xavier Badosa | CC BY 2.0 \u201cHe who controls the past controls the future,\u201d wrote George Orwell in\u00a01984. Daniel Wolff doesn\u2019t want to control the past, but he does want to paint an accurate picture of it. He does it well in his new book,\u00a0\u00a0Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}