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Freepost: How America’s “Fighting Mayor” stopped the 1919 Seattle General Strike

Communist-backed unions shut down major city for the first time in US history

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Apr 25, 2024
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This article is a part of an ongoing series on the First Red Scare. The last two entries in this series were a recounting of a forgotten anarchist bombing campaign that paralyzed New York City in 1915 and a reproduction of several intelligence reports from the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1917-1921). Please becom…

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