In 1910
the Milwaukee socialists elected a municipal ticket, the first large
city to vote the socialists into office.
[79] In 1907 Haywood was tried and acquitted with two other officers of
the Western Federation of Miners at Bois?, Idaho, on a murder charge
which grew out of the same labor struggle. This was one of the several
sensational trials in American labor history, on a par with the Molly
Maguires' case in the seventies, the Chicago Anarchists' in 1887, and
the McNamaras' case in 1912.
[80] The same applies to the International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union.
[81] Except the miners, brewers, and garment workers.
[82] See above, 185-186.
[83] This refers particularly to the six shopmen's unions.
CHAPTER 10
THE WAR-TIME BALANCE SHEET
The outbreak of the War in Europe in August 1914 found American labor
passing through a period of depression. The preceding winter had seen
much unemployment and considerable distress and in the summer industrial
conditions became scarcely improved. In the large cities demonstrations
by the unemployed were daily occurrences.
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