[Daily article] September 8: The Bread-Winners

The Bread-Winners is an 1883 anti-labor novel by John Hay, who was
Assistant Secretary to the President under Abraham Lincoln, and
McKinley's final secretary of state. Originally published anonymously in
installments in The Century Magazine, the book attracted wide interest
and provoked considerable speculation over the author's identity. Hay
wrote his only novel as a reaction to several strikes that affected him
and his business interests in the 1870s and early 1880s. In the main
storyline, a wealthy former army captain, Arthur Farnham, organizes
Civil War veterans to keep the peace when the Bread-winners, a group of
lazy and malcontented workers, call a violent general strike. Hay left
hints as to his identity in the novel, and some guessed right, but he
never acknowledged the book as his, and it did not appear with his name
on it until after his death in 1905. Hay's hostile view of organized
labor was soon seen as outdated, and the book is best remembered for its
onetime popularity and controversial nature.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bread-Winners>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led
an uprising, which was suppressed by the Order within a few hours.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_of_the_Priests>

1831:

The Russian Empire brought the Polish November Uprising to an
end when its troops captured Warsaw after a two-day assault.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_%281831%29>

1935:

U.S. senator Huey Long was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
dying two days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long>

1966:

The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered with "The
Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult
phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

bottle episode:
(originally US, television) An episode of a television series designed
to be inexpensive and restricted in its use of sets, effects, cast
members, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bottle_episode>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the modern
history of our country and he must be defeated. Tragically, we have a
president today who is a pathological liar and who is running a corrupt
administration. He clearly does not understand the Constitution of the
United States and thinks that he is a president who is above the law. In
my view, he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a
religious bigot, and he must be defeated, and I will do everything in my
power to make that happen.  
--Bernie Sanders
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders>

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