August 11-12, 1917: when thousands of Kansas City citizens spent their weekend deporting professional strikebreakers

The history of a militant strike of streetcar workers in Kansas City in 1917 by Jeff Stilley, during which the population of the town drove out scabs who had been brought in by the employers.

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