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Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans

Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans. Post-war labor unrest: Coal Miners Strike of 1919. Steel Strike of 1919. Boston Police Strike of 1919. Anti-Labor. “If Capital & Labor Don’t Pull Together” – Chicago Tribune. Consequences of Labor Unrest.

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Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans

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  1. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Post-war labor unrest: • Coal Miners Strike of 1919. • Steel Strike of 1919. • Boston Police Strike of 1919.

  2. Anti-Labor “If Capital & Labor Don’t Pull Together” – Chicago Tribune

  3. Consequences of Labor Unrest “While We Rock the Boat” – Washington Times

  4. Coal Miners’ Strike - 1919 “Keeping Warm” – Los Angeles Times

  5. Steel Strike - 1919 “Coming Out of the Smoke” – New York World

  6. The “Red Scare” “What a Year Has Brought Forth” – NY World

  7. “Red Scare” -- Anti-Bolshevism “Put Them Out & Keep Them Out” – Philadelphia Inquirer

  8. Boston Police Strike - 1919 “He gives aid & comfort to the enemies of society” – Chicago Tribune

  9. Boston Police Strike - 1919 “Striking Back” – New York Evening World

  10. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans 6. “The Red Scare”: • 1919 - 3rd. Internationalgoal --> promote worldwide communism. • Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer (The Case Against the Reds) • Palmer Raids - 1920

  11. Congressman Victor Berger (WI) You got nothing out of the war except the flu and Prohibition.

  12. “Red Scare” – Palmer Raids Police Arrest “Suspected Reds’ in Chicago, 1920

  13. “Red Scare” – Palmer Raids A. Mitchell Palmer’s Home Bombed, 1920

  14. The 1920 Election

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