George Rine, Charles E. Thomas, and Arthur Burkhart were striking members of Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America Local 131 during the epic 1900 St. Louis street car strike murdered by deputized thugs the evening of June 10, 1900 coming home from a union picnic. 14 others were shot in the incident. Not forgotten, never forgiven.

St. Louis Labor. Vol. 2 No. 71. June 7, 1902.

A long-running socialist paper begun in 1901 as the Missouri Socialist published by the Labor Publishing Company, this was the paper of the Social Democratic Party of St. Louis and the region’s labor movement. The paper became St. Louis Labor, and the official record of the St. Louis Socialist Party, then simply Labor, running until 1925. The SP in St. Louis was particularly strong, with the socialist and working class radical tradition in the city dating to before the Civil War. The paper holds a wealth of information on the St Louis workers movement, particularly its large German speaking working class.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/missouri-socialist/020607-stlouislabor-v02w071.pdf