This event led to a group of sailors stoning bystanders and smashing windows and a brief takeover by gangs, and it failed due to lack of support by the (*) Central Labor Union.
The Storrow Committee was an unsuccessful attempt to avoid this event, which Francis Russell wrote about in A City in Terror. One official called this event "a crime against civilization," and it was partly inspired by the ineffectiveness of a Social Club which Frank McCarthy attempted to reform. This event led to a group of sailors stoning bystanders and smashing windows and a brief takeover by gangs, and it failed due to lack of support by the (*) Central Labor Union. Andrew J Peters called in a militia to handle this event, which eventually lead to the hiring of some one thousand veterans. This event occurred after Edwin Upton Curtis refused to adjust wages for inflation and recognize a union chartered by the AFL, and it notably propelled the governor to the vice presidential ticket under Warren G Harding. For 10 points, name this September 1919 event handled by Governor Calvin Coolidge, a strike involving law enforcement agents in an East Coast city.
The Storrow Committee was an unsuccessful attempt to avoid this event, which Francis Russell wrote about in A City in Terror.
{Boston Police} Strike