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On this day, 6 November 1912, the Grabow lumber mill in Louisiana was burned to the ground. Four months earlier it had been the location of a massacre caused when bosses opened fire on striking workers. The workers, many of them organised in the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, part of the Industrial Workers of the World, fired back and after the dust settled four people were dead and 50 injured. The fire was officially designated as an "accident" and no one was arrested.
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