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== =The Seattle General Strike:=

The very first major strike after WWI took place in Seattle where shipyard workers walked out of their jobs and demanded higher pay with shorter hours, these workers were up to numbers as high as about 35,000. But with that came other workers, union workers in fact, who had joined these shipyard workers and organized a general strike. Now a general strike is a strike that involves a whole community of workers, not just a certain industry or company. This strike went on for about five days with over 60,000 workers rampaging to get what they WANTED. Many Americans were worried about these strikes, even though strikers went back to work, because this was a tactic used by European communists, as well as other communists from different countries.