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Sonya Pliss 1906 - 1988

Sonya Pliss of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on August 23, 1906, and died at age 82 years old in October 1988.
Sonya Pliss
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11226
August 23, 1906
October 1988
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  • 08/23
    1906

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    August 23, 1906
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  • 10/dd
    1988

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    October 1988
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    Sonya Pliss lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1906, in the year that Sonya Pliss was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1922, she was 16 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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