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DESCRIPTION:100th Anniversary of 1919 Seattle General Strike\nWith Robert Orvetz, 
 Gifford Hartman\n\nThis year is the 100th anniversary of the Seattle 
 General Strike. Today, the call for general strikes has again been taken up 
 by Sara Nelson, the leader of the CWA-AFA, and ATU VP Bruce 
 Hamilton.\n\nThe general strike in Seattle involved over 65,000 workers. 
 The strike, which lasted for six days unlike the San Francisco General 
 Strike, non-violent without attacks on striking workers. The strike 
 movement began in the shipyards in January 1919, and on February 3, 2019, 
 the Seattle Central Labor Council called for all unions to join in a 
 general strike. The general strike started on Thursday, February 6, 2019. 
 On February 7, US troops entered Seattle. That did not end the strike, but 
 the strike did end before the strikers’ demands were met.\n\nHistorians 
 Robert Ovetz, educator and author of “When Workers Shot Back: Class 
 Conflict from 1877 to 1921,” will be joined by Gifford Hartman, an adult 
 educator and working class historian, will discuss the lessons of that 
 strike and other mass working class actions, including the great steel 
 strike in Ohio, the coal strike in Indiana County, and the Winnepeg general 
 strike. Over 4 million workers participated in strikes during 
 1919.\n\nhttps://laborfest.net/event/1919-100th-anniversary-of-seattle-general-strike/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/18/18824057.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: 100th Anniversary of 1919 Seattle General Strike
LOCATION:518 Valencia, San Francisco. 16th St BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/18/18824057.php
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