The Reds and the General Strike
Author : C. B.
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Page : 37 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1955*
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Author : C. B.
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Page : 37 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1955*
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Author : c B.
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1926
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Communism
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Author : Robert Friedheim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0295744618
“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim’s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city’s labor movement. While Seattle’s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city’s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
Author : Cal Winslow
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1583678522
A historical analysis of the General Strike of 1919 in Seattle On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors – streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers – fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are you’ve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattle’s General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radical – even “Bolshevik.” Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919; it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of America’s most gripping strikes – what E.P. Thompson once referred to as "the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people." Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again – possibly in the place where you live.
Author : Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
ISBN : 9780719038655
Examines the reasons for the General Strike and its significance for British society, focusing on events such as "Black Friday" and on the constitutional issues raised. The book argues that the strike was inevitable but asserts that it was not the disaster that it is often presented as being.
Author : Margaret Morris
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
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Author : Jacob A. Zumoff
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1978809913
This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : William F. Dunne
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1934
Category : General Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934
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