Forty-eight hours after 48 unions had called it early last week, a general strike in Terre Haute was ended by the American Federation of Labor. As a show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success—vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San...
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