Kristian Williams - Our Enemies in Blue - Police and Power in America

40 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 179. On the Lawrence textile strike, see also: Zinn, People's History,328-330.41 Quoted in Peter Bollen, Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader (Los Angeles: Red EyePress, 2000), 22.42 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 176. By the end of the strike, 296 had been arrested. Yellen, LaborStruggles, 189.43 Yellen, labor Struggles, 178-179.44 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 194.45 Quoted in Yellen, Labor Struggles, 181. A similar argument was used to convicr the Haymarketdefendants a quarterecentury before. See chapter 7.46 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 193.47 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 182.48 Quoted in Zinn, People's History, 328.49 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 185-187.50 Quoted in Zinn, People's History, 329.51 Yellen, Labo/" Struggles, 190-91.52 Quoted in Yellen, Labor Struggles, 193.53 Yellen, Labor Struggle.f, 195-197.54 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 308-3 13 and 316-3 17.55 One oft-cited example: Oregon lumber mills shut down, because there was no way to ship thewood. Brecher, Strike! 151; and Yellen, Labor Struggles, 315.56 David F. Sclvin, A "[errible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (Deetwit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), 91-92.57 Selvin, lerrible Anger, 93.58 flrecher, Strike! 152.59 Violence was less common in Portland and Seattle, where the persistent threat of a general strikediscouraged any attempt at opening the docks. Selvin, Terrible Anger, 104.The most notable incident in the northwest carne as the San Francisco General Strike waswinding down. Seattle mayor Charles Smith ordered 300 police to remove 2,000 picketers fromthe city's pier at Smith's Cove. The cops used tear gas and nausea gas against the crowds, and thepolice chief resigned in protest. Selvin, Terrible Anger, 225; and Ye llen, Labor Struggles, 332.60 Selvin, Terrible Angel; 144-146; and Yellen, Labor Struggles, 318.61 Quoted in Selvin, Terrible Anger, 156.62 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 318.63 Selvin, Terrible Anger, 149. The police naturally reversed this chronology in their official stateements, claiming that the inspectors merely defended themselves against the hail of rocks comingfrom the crowd. Several witnesses, including Harry Bridges, testified that nothing was thrownuntil after the shots were fired. Seivin, Terrible Anger, 14.64 Selvin, Terrible Anger, 11-12 and 14.65 Quoted in Selvin, Terrible Anger, 150.66 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 319; and Brecher, Strike! 1 53.67 Brecher, Strike! 153; and Yellen, Labor Struggles, 319.68 Quoted in Selvin, Terrible Anger, 161-162.69 Quoted in Yellen, Labor Strug..'?:le.28.77 Selyin, TerribLe Anger, 221 and 227.78 Selvin, Terrible Anger, 224.79 Se1vin, Terrible Anger, 233.80 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 334-335.81 Selvin, TerribLe Anger, 237. Between January 1, 1937, and August 1, 1938, 350 strikes occurredon the West Coast docks, mostly brief and localized "quickies." Brecher, Strike' 158.82 Quoted in Selvin, lerrible Allger. 240.8.3 To ny Bartelme, "Indicted Longshoremen Adopred as Union Crusade," Post and Courier (Charleseto n, SC), September 3, 2001.84 Bartelme, "Indicted Longshoremen;" and "Analysis: South Carolina Longshoremen Accuse AttorneyGeneral of Playing Politics in Riot Indictments of Union Members," Morning Edition,National Public Radio, July 16, 2001 [database: Newspaper source, accessed September 29, 2002].265