Editing Seattle General Strike (section)

{{Short description|1919 workers' strike in Seattle, Washington}}
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| title = Seattle General Strike
| partof = the [[First Red Scare]]
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| caption = ''[[Union Record]]'' Monday, February 3, 1919
| date = February 6–11, 1919
| place = [[Seattle, Washington]]
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| causes = *Inspiration from the [[Russian Revolution]]
*As a show of solidarity with shipyard workers<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Seattle General Strike: An account of what happened in Seattle, and especially in the Seattle labor movement during the General Strike, February 6 to 11, 1919|author=History Committee of the General Strike Committee |date=1919|publisher=The Seattle Union Record, Publishing Co., Inc.|location=Seattle|hdl = 2027/hvd.32044011842598 |ref={{sfnref|History Committee|1919}} }}</ref>
| goals = *Pay increases
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| result = *Arrests of strikers, charges later dropped
*Foundation of several cooperatives after, including a cooperative bank<ref>{{Cite book|title=Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919|last=Winslow|first=Cal|date=2020|publisher=Monthly Review Press|isbn=978-1583678527|pages=252}}</ref>
* Build up of the [[First Red Scare]]
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The '''Seattle General Strike''' was a five-day general [[strike action|work stoppage]] by 65,000 workers in the city of [[Seattle, Washington]] from February 6 to 11, 1919. The goal was to support shipyard workers in several unions who were locked out  of their jobs when they tried to strike for higher wages. Most other local unions joined the walk-out, including members of the [[American Federation of Labor]] (AFL) and the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW). The national offices of the AFL unions were opposed to the shutdown. Local, state and federal government officials, the press, and much of the public viewed the strike as a radical attempt to subvert American institutions.

The strike's demand for higher wages came within months of the end of [[World War I]], the original justification for the wage controls. From 1915 to 1918, Seattle had seen a big increase in union membership, and some union leaders were inspired by the [[Russian Revolution]] of 1917. Some commentators blamed the strike on [[Bolsheviks]] and other radicals inspired by "un-American" ideologies, making it the first expression of the anti-[[American Left|left]] sentiment that characterized the [[First Red Scare|Red Scare]] of 1919 and 1920.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7sgJeSyKZoYC|title=Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920|last=Murray|first=Robert K.|year=1955|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=9780816658336|page=58}}</ref>