Keep the Wretches in Order
Keep the Wretches in Order Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, government and…
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Keep the Wretches in Order
Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, government and industry feared that strikes would endanger war production; a more coordinated, national strategy would be necessary. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers.
The department systematically targeted the nation's most radical and innovative union, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. To prevent stoppages, the Department of Justice embarked on a sweeping new effort-replacing gunmen with lawyers. history.In the first legal history of this federal trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical