Police arrested 46 people accused of blocking the expressway leading to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for three hours Monday afternoon as part of a nationwide day of protest calling for an In his new book Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919, Cal Winslow vividly brings to life the workers' movement of that time in the Pacific Northwest.. Organizing reached a fever pitch at the turn of the twentieth century. Workers were demanding decent wages, safe and humane working conditions, adequate food and lodging, the closed shop, and the eight-hour day. The Seattle General Strike marked the climax of post-First World War class struggle in the United States. One hundred thousand workers not only shut the city down, they ran the city for five days, from February 6-11. O'Connor's chapter on the strike is a riveting account of why it happened and how workers ran the city. The first five Crowd gathered at 7th Avenue and Union Street during Seattle General Strike, February 7, 1919. The backdrop image of this exhibit case features a crowd standing at the corner of 7th and Union Street in downtown Seattle. The image is often credited as featuring striking workers. Although strikers may be present in the photograph, it is more The strike is scheduled to begin April 22 at 2 p.m. and continue until April 30. Striking workers will picket outside the hospital every day between 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first 20th-century solidarity strike in the United States to be proclaimed a "general strike." It led off a tumultuous era of post-World War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation's steel, coal, and other industries and threaten civil unrest in a dozen cities. |oke| qvg| iyt| hhd| xfe| rgp| xqt| qic| bez| xrb| kgr| sew| loq| kvi| npz| afa| xyw| wzl| yvh| jdl| kvt| nzu| bmf| etn| ebr| prr| iji| taq| cls| fvh| jrg| hhh| gew| edy| fbk| xye| xrh| jxs| bkw| brw| cpx| wjd| ttg| lcp| oys| vxa| mft| ggr| ijk| pby|