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Was the Minneapolis Aquatennial established to distract from labor strikes?

Yes. Beginning in 1940, a group of Minneapolis businessmen created the Aquatennial, a civic festival and parade, to “improve Minneapolis’s reputation nationally” following labor strikes in the 1930s. ....

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The 1946 Oakland General Strike

In memory of Jeremy Prickett, lifelong socialist, machinist, and comrade whose research was the foundation for this article.

“Women pickets have been bruised and battered by company goons … Scab herding power groups have insulted the sacred emblem of the G.I. by putting it on strike breakers … Th ....

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