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Seattle General Strike begins

On February 6, 1919, more than 65,000 workers in Seattle walked off the job in a citywide general strike that shut down transit, shipping, and many businesses.

As the first large-scale general strike in the United States, it heightened national fears of radicalism and labor unrest during the postwar period and influenced federal and local responses to labor militancy during Wilson's administration.

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