Company scrip
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Company scrip is scrip issued by a company to pay its employees. It can only be exchanged in company stores owned by the employers. In the United Kingdom, such truck wage systems have long been formal
Scrip used by Olga Coal Company, Coalwood, West Virginia
Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company Scrip for White Lake, Wisconsin
Various forms of coal scrip
$1 scrip coin from Peerless Coal & Coke Co., Vivian, West Virginia
Thibodaux massacre
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The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana, on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in w
Company scrip
…went on strike in order to receive money payments instead of scrip; this escalated into violence and dozens of African Americans were killed in the Thibodaux massacre. The use of scrip continued into the 1900s; in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of meeting plantation workers who had been paid in scrip all their…
Louisiana sugar cane laborers c. 1880
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906