Status Updates From Strike!

It is STRIKE -ing that there was so much red baiting during the strike wave of 1919 but I guess it makes sense considering the Russian Revolution happened 2 years prior. I am also taken aback by the amount of union leaders that disagreed with their workers and actually ended up pushing folks out of unions because they opposed strikes. The level of radicalism within the ranks of workers is badass.

"witness the walkout last week of women workers on feathers and artificial flowers, who want a forty-four-hour week and the abolition of home work Even the scrub-women employed in a downtown building struck and put strikebreakers to rout with their mop handles."

Girly pops beating scabs with mop handles is peak labor history

Seattle strike of 1919 is the GOAT