[Seattle-editorial] FP: General Strike anniversary

[Joseph Eisenschmidt]

yes, yes, 100,000 times yes.

And where this may lead, No one knows where!

Joseph

Quoting jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org>:

> subtitle: MILESTONE IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY
> title: Feb. 6 Marks 85th Anniversary of Seattle General Strike
> 
> On the morning of February 6, 1919, Seattle, a city of 315,000
> people, <a 
> href="http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/"><b>stopped
> 
> working</b></a>. 25,000 union members had joined 35,000 already
> on strike. 
> Much of the remaining work force was idled as stores closed and
> streetcars 
> stopped running. The General Strike Committee, composed of
> delegates from 
> the key striking unions, tried to coordinate vital services and
> negotiate 
> with city officials, but events moved
> quickly beyond their control. The <a 
> href="http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/cgi-
win/fulltcgi.exe/General_Strike_of_1919|labor/genstrik.19"><b>histor
ic,
> 
> city-wide strike</b></a> led off a tumultuous era of labor
> conflict that 
> saw massive strikes shut down the nation's steel, coal, and meat
> packing 
> industries and threaten civil unrest in a dozen cities.
> 
> <p><a
> 
href="http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/pnwlabor/"><b>Northwest
> 
> Labor History Project</b></a> (Univ. of Washington)
> 
> <p><a 
> 
href="http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/images/nooneknow
swhere.jpg">Union
> 
> Record editorial, 4 Feb 1919</a> | <a 
> 
href="http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/seattle1919_p2.htm
l">General
> 
> Strike Committee account, March 1919</a>
> 
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Joseph Eisenschmidt