today marks the centenary of the start of the steel strike of 1919 when the amalgamated iron, steel, and tin worker' union struck against the steel industry and united states steel in particular...corporate interests and politicians smeared the strikers as "wobblies", syndicalists, and communists, enhanced by the recent revolution in russia the pr worked and public opinion turned against the strikers...clashes between strikers and strikebreaking scabs in gary...
resulted in the declaration of martial law and the occupation of the city by federal troops on 6 october 1919...the threat of substantive change from below always meets the forces of armed reaction.
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