The first Red Scare begins: Thirty-five thousand shipbuilders, inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, go on strike demanding restoration of the 23% pay cut they sustained during the shipbuilding boom of the Great War (World War I).
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References:
Seattle shipyard strike begins on January 21, 1919. – HistoryLink.org
www.historylink.org/File/11158
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