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The period of anticommunist hysteria in America.
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35,000 shipyard workers walked off the job demanding higher wages and shorter hours. Later 110 unions joined them and made a total of 60,000 people.
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365,000 steelworkers walked off the job demanding recognition of their union, higher wages and shorter work hours.
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75 percent of the Boston police force went on strike after 19 police offers got fired from participating in labor union activities.
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400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines demanding the continued enforcement of wartime contracts that kept workers' pay fixed at 1917 rates despite increases in cosumer prices.
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Federal officials arrested thousands of susspected radicals in 33 cities nationwide.
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This policy supported union-free open shops.
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More than 800,000 African Americans moved North following the thousands that had already moved during the war.
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This limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States,, from 3 percent to 2 percent.
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This law pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all-time high in order to protect farms and factories.
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A. Philip Randolph founded this union to better the working conditions of the thousands of African Americans who worked for the Pullman Company.
