The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 174 - The Hard Hat Riot

Episode Date: May 19, 2016

Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the Hard Hat Riot. SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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Hey, hey. That wasn't me, that wasn't Jose. No, it was about you. April 30th, 1970. President Nixon announced that the U.S. had invaded Cambodia in order to disrupt the supply lines and strongholds of the enemy, the other people. So it's a feel-good dot. Bad guy.

It's going to be, but we're going to, you'll see. This came after he had been promising for a year to begin to wind down the Vietnam War. That's how you wind it down. That's how you wind it down. You know what? You'll wrap a wind down. I said I was winding down Vietnam, I didn't say I was winding down Cambodia. General.

Hi, Kissinger. Of course, this was met with fury. Protests were held all over the country. Four days later, 2,000 college students were protesting the new Cambodian campaign at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Oh boy. Nothing happened. Yeah.

The Ohio National Guard shot 67 rounds, killing four students and wounding nine. Perfect. Because the students were looking at him funny. Yeah. That's how you deal with them. Some of the students. This is not looking funny at them. Who?

The students. That's a good point. Thank you. Put them in line, didn't it? Take that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Some of the students were just watching her and been walking by. Interesting. Yeah.

Some of the students were just walking to class and got killed. Yeah, but you know, that's also bullshit. Right. Right? Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. That's just the follow-ups. Okay. That's just the statement. Yes. Fair. This, of course, led to a student strike across the country in massive protests, including in New York City.

You know, also, while I was reading this, I discovered that two students about two weeks later were shot and killed by local police and state police. I think it was Jackson University, but because they were black, no one knows about it. Well. America. Are you surprised by that? No. Horrifying.

Oh. It's horrifying. It feels like part of the black chorus. In New York City, Mayor John Lindsay called for a day of reflection on May 8th to, quote, reflect solemnly on the numbing events at Kent State University and their implications for the future fate of America. Okay. That's fair.

Yeah. Right? The time to think about it. The ordered flags to be flown at half-mast to honor the dead students. Around 1,000 high school and college students gathered at Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan to protest. Okay. Now, around lunchtime, a group of about 200 angry construction workers who were working

on the nearby World Trade Center marched to confront the protesters. Okay. They were union guys, almost all white. Now, well, that may be the prevailing idea today of what union guys are. For some reason, that's what Democrats have decided is that all unionists are white, dumb hicks. They've just, yeah, not educated, angry, conservative. That's the standard.

That wasn't actually the case for most union guys at the time. Okay. The roots of what was about to occur that day in New York City started in the 1930s. During FDR's New Deal, labor unions embraced the Democratic Party, which was problematic. This meant unions worked to kick out militants in their union, and that they put emphasis on political lobbying instead of grassroots work. Right. Unions also embraced the Red Scare.

Okay. Do you enjoy the Red Scare? Hey, you mean A&Flo? Ho! Hey, comes off the month, goes right away. Hey! How come the unions worked against the menstruation? The menstruation to protestation?

Yes, I'm familiar with the Reds. Are you asking if I know what the Red Scare is about? I'm just checking. Okay, yes. The answer is yes. So, they were also unions backed the deployment of troops abroad and the Korean War. This was kind of a switch for unions. They hadn't done this before.

Okay. They were mostly socialist, really serious leftists. Right. When the A&Flo and CIO unions merged in 1955, one of the conditions was that they both accept anti-communism platforms. Okay. Which is weird if you think about unions. The only way we merge is if we don't like the commies.

Right. We're kind of our commies a little bit. No more, no we're not. We're better than them. We're a group that comes together. You're damn right we are, and we're going to stamp out communists if they try to step on this group that is looked at equal by each other. Okay, I feel weird right now.

Anyone who comes over here and tries to bring communism to what I'm considering a group of peers, friends, and equals all sharing in the same amount of wealth, I'm going to fuck them up. Okay, but what you're saying is, I mean it's contradictory. I'm saying that communism and socialism is sort of the same thing as what you're saying. And if either one rears its ugly head near a group whose spine, whose fundamental growth is based upon sharing equally, I will ruin them. Okay, I gotta go.

So anyway, everyone was on board because you know the Cold War. Then came the 60s and all hell broke loose. The New Left rose. So the New Left consisted of educators and agitators and others who fought for civil rights, gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and legalized drugs. This was different from earlier leftist movements that had focused on labor unionization and questions of social class. So there's some shit going on.

It's the 60s. Moving in the right direction? Yes, moving in the right direction. The New Left rejected the labor movement and the theory of class struggle. These were hippies in anti-war college campus protest movements, right? So there again, so the New Left is like, well fuck the guys that union guys working. Fuck the union guys who should love communism. Fucking twats.

But the problem with casting out labor unions was that they weren't all white and conservative. Unions had marched with MLK and there were ideological divides within the AFL, CIO. This was a federation of unions with a lot of autonomy. So it's like a ton of unions that came together under this big banner and they didn't all agree with the fucking anti-communist shit and whatever else. Many of the CIO unions were on board with the New Left than the AFL unions who were more conservative, particularly when it came to civil rights. The CIO unions, like the United Auto Workers and the United Packing House Workers, gave

money and logistical support to civil rights activists. Okay. I just like packing house workers. What? Being, supporting civil, what do you mean? I just like the fact that they're packing, packing stuff. They're packers. Yeah.

They just pack. They pack meat, right? That's the deal. They're... No, suitcases for trips. You know, Greg loves this shirt and also don't forget, Kathy will want the snorkel kit and the flippers. Jam the flippers in.

So it's just a union with the guys who pack suitcases. Yeah, pack suit, yep, for sure. Yeah, they're meat. They work in meat plants. Meat packing. That's generally... Yeah. The UAW gave up, gave start money to the students for a democratic society who were crazy.

What's the UAW? Sorry. United Auto Workers. Yeah. So they're fucking funding the most left of the left. Right. Right. But the head of the AFLCAO, whose name was George Meany.

Oh, unreal. I mean, it's like that series of books where it's like, Mr. Stumbly, Mr. Angry. Yeah, they came across his name. I was like, that's just amazing. So George Meany was not down with the new social... Mr. Meany, why are you doing this to us? You're on a bunch of shit facts. Mr. Meany's in one of his Meany moods.

So he was against the social movements and kept having confrontations with other union heads who were much more liberal. Meany then became a conservative spokesman. Meany. We have our bad guy. And he was enraged when a bunch of other union heads ignored him and supported the civil rights movement. The AFL...

There is something so interesting about being a group that is all about solidarity when the man's trying to fuck with you, only to hate, be like, but not the blacks. Right. The blacks aren't allowed. They can't collectively do stuff like this, okay? It's fucking crazy. Which makes sense why a bunch of unions were totally pro-civil rights. If not, you were just totally black words.

You were black words. The AFL-CIO endorsed a civil rights law and Meany was furious. Of course he was. He's Meany. He's very Meany. I'm steamy Meany. Now you're not heard my name. He also insisted that the unions give unqualified support to the Vietnam War.

But... This guy's killing it. Yeah. Ruther, had been a socialist union leader, risen up to become the president of the UAW, and was now head of the CIO. He jumped in with the newly formed Labour Leadership Assembly for Peace in 1967. And Meany publicly called Ruther a kook. So the two heads of the union...

Yeah, so now the two heads of the unions that are formed into one union... Right. Which Meany is now technically the head of. He was the head of the AFL. Now he's the head of the both. Now they completely disagree. And Ruther's right underneath them and he's all for Vienna hippie. Right.

It's strange when a group of people who were on the same page until Real Issues came up find out that they're splintered, huh? It is weird, isn't it? I wonder. I think there's parallels to...Many...sorry, Meany apparently didn't realize that 522 other Labour leaders also endorsed the Labour Leadership Assembly for Peace. So Meany wasn't doing his homework. He was not at all.

Meany was just operating from his gut. Meany thought that they were all undermining the forces in Vietnam. No, they're all undermining the forces! That's the worst argument. How can they fight if they think that people don't like them? Meany, Meany, Meany angry. And if the US lost to Vietnam, if the US lost and Vietnam went to the communists, Meany thought it would be the end of free trade unions.

I mean... That is quite a leap there, right? It's a huge jump. How that...how does that...how does one even connect those dots necessarily? I really tried to think about it for a while, but I couldn't put it together. Because Vietnam really was one of the...like Vietnam probably wasn't the first, but it's just like since, you know, like World War II, World War II really spoiled us with war. Because we then became like, so like, we're in the streets, we're making out, the guys

are back in town, we won the shit, and then from then on it's just been like unsolvable conflicts that we're like, when are we gonna win this shit? How...how does this work? Throw more money and meditate until it's official that the refs called it for us. Yeah, so apparently it's gonna end free trade unions. Go good. At the AFL-CIO convention in 1967, Meany said that in Vietnam, the AFL-CIO was neither hawk nor dove nor chicken, but was supporting brother trade unionists struggling against

communism. Okay. Yeah, he's... By the way, he's got, I mean, on paper, I still take the last title. Chicken? No. The one after that, the one that's like, you support black people are getting mushed by communism.

Yeah. Okay. It just makes no sense. Chicken? Chicken. Neither hawk nor dove nor chicken. Neither hawk nor dove nor chicken. No dove.

No rooster. No. No. Penguins. They are penguins. Thank you, Gary, in the back. After all the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Meany called the protesters quote, dirty-necked and dirty-mouthed group of kooks.

So he liked kooks. He liked the word kooks a lot. I get that. But I love that they're dirty-necked. Oh, dirty-necked? Yeah. Like they're not washing. Oh, I thought he said dirty-necked.

No, neck. Like they're necks. Oh, you are saying neck. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Dirty-neck. Yeah.

Right. Like you're cleaning in the mirror in the bathroom real quick. That's right. You're just like, oh, clean as a whistle. And then you turn around and you just look like, you know, you've been dragged through mud. Yeah. Pig pen.

Yeah. Pig pen. So, Reuther, the head of the CIO, couldn't take the old line conservative bullshit of meeting his crew. And he resigned from the AFL-CIO and took the United Auto Workers Union with him. Okay. So, fucking, that guy's the shit. Stormed out.

Yeah. The Vietnam War wasn't going well, and when Nixon was elected, this created more attention amongst blue-collar workers. Many conservative white workers were scared of civil rights militants and all the counterculture bullshit. While others who were liberal were on board with the civil rights movement, Nixon encouraged this division amongst the workers as he saw that he could siphon off a bunch of blue-collar votes that had been going to Democrats for so long.

Okay. By 1969, political analysts were openly talking about blue-collar conservatives and their anger at affirmative action and their hatred of the lack of patriotism of the new left. The left union workers of whom there were many, of whom had voted to support civil rights, whose unions had split off from in the fight, were being forgotten already. A movie named Joe, starring Peter Boyle, came out in 1970. In it, Boyle plays a blue-collar worker who befriends an advertising executive who had killed a hippie.

So I read the description of the movie, this ad executive kills a hippie in a rage, and then he accidentally blurts it out, and then this guy, this blue-collar worker befriends him, because he's like, that's cool, you killed a hippie. Hey, listen, that actually doesn't sound too crazy now that you mentioned it. You know what I mean? You should hang out a little bit. Yeah. Because I'm a blue-collar guy, and I want to kill hippies.

What was it like? So after... When you grabbed the beatnik by its bandana and lumpy hair... He just bashed him with a pipe. How great was it? The pipe that he was just smoking. After a lot of hippie rage, they drove to a commune and killed all the hippies living there.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. This was a movie? It was a hit. A hit? It was a big hit. Peter Boyle worked for a while. I know, right? Yeah.

The stereotype of the angry of the white angry at the left blue-collar worker was being cemented. So now you're moving into the creators of art propagating the idea that all blue-collar workers are racist monsters. And also, right, now trying to show the trend of the left moving to the right a little bit in a way. Yeah. Right? And you're also...

So think about it. So if you're a blue-collar worker and you've just been fighting for civil rights and doing all this shit and now you're being portrayed as a monster, what are you thinking? Peter Boyle's good. One of the most conservative groups in the AFL-CIO are construction workers. But the support for the war was not strong amongst all union workers. The war had cost many lives and made economic conditions in the US worse. The war had the most support from college-educated professionals.

Wow. That's crazy. In truth, thousands of workers were part of the anti-war protest, which they were organized through their unions. Okay. A poll taken at the time found that a majority of union workers thought the war was a mistake and wanted out. But the construction workers on May 8th on Wall Street in New York City would have one

of the biggest impacts on how we would view union workers from then until now. The construction workers at the World Trade Center were told by their shop stewards to leave the job site and to confront the protesters, who are, of course, protesting in Kent State. Right. People who were killed. And they were told they would be paid to do it. Some were given a bonus, a cash bonus, to, quote, break some heads. They weren't just going after the protesters.

This was biggers. They also had impeached Lindsey signs, the mayor, who was considered an aristocrat and socially liberal. They had earlier in the year had flags lowered to half mass during the national moratorium against the war day, and conservatives lost their shit. They were furious that a mayor would inject himself into a fight between war protesters and the president and the soldiers. Now six months later, the construction workers were marching down Wall Street toward the

thousand protesters ready for payback. And these were the white union workers. These are the guys that you look at, the stereotype that now exists. They were conservatives. Construction union workers were at the forefront of keeping blacks out of their union. Peter Brennan was head of the Building Trades Council in his response to the city pushing for integration in the construction unions was to create a training program for blacks where the training would take place in a separate place than where the construction was happening.

And then after their training, they wouldn't get a union membership, and they wouldn't get a job when they were finished. Well, that's how you integrate, isn't it? I mean, no complaints on how he handled integration. No, I mean. I mean, aside from not integrating. All right, we'll let the black, we'll let the black guys into a training program. We're going to have them over in Jersey in a warehouse.

They could play video games next door for a buck an hour. And then when they're done, no job, no union card, good, better, better. That's our plan. Definitely a little bit. That's our plan. The mayor, of course, pushed back against this plan. But Peter Brennan held firm. Now a shitload of his boys were marching towards City Hall.

As they passed Trinity Church, they ripped a Red Cross banner from the gates down. And they tried to rip down a flag of the Episcopal Church. Interesting. Later, the Reverend at the church would say, quote, I suppose they thought it was a Viet Kong flag. Oh, what? I think he was just calling him idiots. The 200 construction workers moved on and they attacked the protesters who were mostly

from New York University and Hunter College, as well as nearby high schools. They came the union workers split up and came from four different directions. The construction workers were wearing brown overalls and orange and yellow hard hats. And then their supposed spontaneous counter protests, they all managed to be carrying American flags and signs with patriotic slogans, which will happen when you. They probably did that on the walk. Well, yeah. Someone's putting together signs, making sandwiches.

Yeah, that's what happens when you do a spontaneous, most spontaneous counter protests. You make signs. Yeah. You have signs. Big puppet heads. For sure. When they first arrived, they walked up to the police line and said to the cops, quote, all we want to do is put our flag up on those steps.

A police inspector replied, if you try, they'll be blood to pay. And now it wasn't just construction workers as they didn't mount March toward Federal Hall from the World Trade Center construction site, chanting all the way USA and love it or leave it, they picked up like-minded New Yorkers who joined them on the March. Please tell me we've got the ancestor of someone we know in that group. Sure there was. The students were all sitting on the sidewalk and pavement listening to speakers. The police presence was small and they did almost nothing to stop the construction workers.

Within two minutes, the construction workers were past the police line and planting their flags on the statue of George Washington. The kids scattered in every direction trying to hide amongst the office workers who were on their lunch hour, but the construction workers found them, especially grabbing the males with long hair who they would kick and beat with their helmets. Edward- If you're just like having your lunch break at that moment, you're just like, dude, don't hide behind me, motherfucker, what are you doing?

Get out of here, get out of here. Hey man, I actually do work in one of these offices, man, even though my hair's long, I'm wearing a tie-dye shirt, I'm still an office guy. I swear, man, I hand out the paychecks, man, I work mail room, bro. Edward Shuffro was watching through binoculars from his office in his brokerage firm. Getting his dick sucked by a bag of cocaine. He saw two men in gray suits and gray hats directing the workers with hand motions. That's the position you want to be in.

Him, him, him, him, him too. David- Some people on the street tried to protect the kids, but they were tossed aside or beaten also. One man was hit with a pair of pliers and had a head wound. A Democrat candidate for the state Senate was beaten and kicked by construction workers as they yelled, kill the commie bastards. Edward-

Hmm, that's interesting. You could tell where they stand. David- He said the police just sat there watching the beating, but the construction workers were not done. They then marched to City Hall. There, a mailman who had joined the mob went up to the roof, went up to the roof and raised the flag from half-mast all the way to full-mast.

Edward- Oh, snap. David- Yeah, take that shit. Now you know. Edward- Now you better recognize. David-

But the construction, oh, and then the crowd below in the street cheered. Edward- Hey. And an aide to the mayor then went up and lowered the flag to half-mast again. David- Whoa. Edward- It's on.

David- We're having a flag off. Edward- Bad move. David- It's mast off. Edward- Really?

David- Now the crowd was furious. Edward- Boo. David- As if they weren't before. Edward- Right.

David- They leapt over the police barricades, ran across parked cars, and past-mounted policemen. They beat the policemen who were guarding the front doors. Edward- Oh, boy. David- They beat the mob, and they pleaded with the mayor to raise the flag. The deputy mayor, who was there and therefore in charge, ordered the flag to be raised to

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Up. Okay. Yeah. All right. You got us. You got us after the construction workers started chanting Lindsey is a red one of Lindsay's aides told the construction worker to quote stop being juveniles Wrong thing to say to juveniles It's not a stop them you go to their level The construction worker responded. What do you mean being a juvenile and then punch the aid in the face? That'll teach you That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you don't you got to go to their level. You got to punch them in the face. That's right Another group of construction workers attacked pace college, which was across the street from City Hall Park

They'd apparently better become angry when they saw a peace banner hanging from the roof of the college No, it says pace. That's his face. No, it says pace. That's the name of dough The banner was ripped down by one construction worker and burned in the street I'll teach you other men went into the college and started trashing it and just beating up random students Who are minding their business? So my only question is who is the villain in this one? Who are we rooting against? It's hard to tell. I can't tell the kids at pace I love I love the idea of kids just these kids who did not join the protests No, who are just sitting there maybe studying or having a little lunch

Oh, are you guys here to fix the hole in the wall when I went to college? I had to call I went to there were two riots And when I went to college one when I was living in San Luis Obispo and another one I was living in Santa Barbara and both riots were basically these drunken idiot things that happened But in both riots cops and riot gear Broke down doors of apartment buildings of student housing and beat up friends of mine who one guy was just putting He was putting peanut butter on toast and a cop kicked in the door and ran in and just beat him up with a Billy Club And ran out. What kind of peanut butter though? Wow, yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah, it's very cool

So what what is what is the idea there is the idea that I mean the idea there is just send a crazy message Just like you don't want this at all. My feeling was is that it was like god We've been listening to your little fucking bullshit You know arrogant little student shit for so fucking long that we just get to do it over we want today They open the doors today, so now we can do whatever we want basically And we're gonna take your peanut butter. Well, yeah One construction worker told the New York Times that the attack was well organized and had been planned days in advance At least twice during the melee

This construction worker had seen two men in business suits with matching color patches on their lapels shouting orders to the construction workers on who to attack sorry I'm like, but we heard we heard about those guys I've heard about those guys before and now he's a construction worker saying the same thing. It's interesting that there were guys there in suits It's weird. It's almost like it was organized and No, that would be conspiracy theory. Okay. All right Finally the fighting stopped, but this was just the beginning of the pro-war activities for the rest of May

Building trade workers would rally for the war all over the city on May 20th The rallies became officially sponsored by the building a construction trades council The movies how you pay for shit and you organize it and oh you are actually now sponsoring a movement A pro-war move pro-war movement. Okay The movement was so large that a hundred thousand people marched one day with signs that read God bless the establishment Do you imagine could you imagine you're like God you like less Establishment first of all fuck the establishment second of all quit thinking God is here for a reason how proud with the the people who

Did the Tea Party in Boston way back Went way back when how proud would they have the people who fought in the revolution? How proud would they have been to see a hundred thousand people marching down? Oh? Broadway with signs that said God bless the establishment So just time-traveling there. Here you go. Yeah, this is what this is what happened. What are they saying? Who are they? They're the workers We It's just be like it would just be like a hundred Hugh Grant's People are marching because we thought that we had to

The idea that we were against a class system Peter Brad Brandon the president of the building and a construction trade Council became a hero for applauding the construction workers attacks on hippies that day He led some of the pro-war rallies and they also doubled as rallies against the mayor protesters called Lindsay quote the red mayor traitor Comerat and a bum the mayor responded by describing the mood of the city as taught Again that's like don't be so classy when you're talking in a situation like this

He's such you just have to just be like I am not a rat economy rat. He's such an aristocrat. Yeah This led very quickly to hippies seeing labor unions as part of the machine Soon the Democrats led by McGovern would rewrite the Democratic Party platform and make a conscious move away from labor unions They decided labor unions were no longer needed and the stereotypes and beliefs of the manual laborers has carried over to today mostly shaped by this one day in New York City and One small sector of labor for getting all those in the public sector and industrial unions who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War This of course all worked out wonderfully for Nixon. Peter Brennan was invited to the White House with 22 other pro-war union leaders There Brennan presented Nixon with a hard hat. Oh, you imagine how awkward he was putting it on

Oh god Let me just get this hat on here. He puts it on like upside down But this is just just think about this. So no, this is one month now after after Students unarmed students were shot and killed That led to a sort of memorial protest And then they were attacked by men who hit them with hard hats and beat them And then the president is being given a hard hat with the weapon of choice right of the day of beating protesters, right? Yeah, it's cool, right

But this was all part of Nixon's plan to win over the blue collar workers create more division between the left and the unions And it was very effective after his reelection Nixon appointed Brennan to be his secretary of labor There Brennan compromised over the minimum wage, of course he did there we go The decline of the union workers was just around the corner and because of the hard hat riot and the beliefs that came forth After Nixon the blue collar workers have never had a president in their corner helping them the hard hat riots reflect a splintering of the New Deal Democratic and the party and the organized labor alliance the polarization had begun today's labor movement while very small more represents

Diverse working class of the United States black workers are more likely to be unionized in whites Latinos or Asians unions are at the front of the struggle for immigrant rights Mayor Lindsey went on to run for president in 1971, but lost badly. Whoa soon. He was no longer mayor of New York Historian Fred Siegel said he was the worst New York City mayor of the 20th century calling him actively destructive But he but he really what I mean. He was merely just trying to Okay, well, I don't even need to get into it. It's pretty obvious Um, well, that's fun. So that's just a little history of how We came to come up with what is basically a stereotype of

the working poor Yeah, which we boy, are we down with that stereotype? Yeah, so it's sad Let's party Oh, well, I hope everyone's up uplifted feels good All right II we sign cars just not poor people's cars. Oh god. I