Nineteen Nineteen
The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor
"Just what lay behind that event I was never able to learn."
Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography
Author's Note, 2002
This portion of my website presents "Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor." I wrote this essay in the spring of 1992 as my undergraduate honors thesis. I hope that the intervening ten years and my graduate education have helped me produce more sophisticated, better written works of history. But since I posted this thesis on-line several years ago, several websites have linked to the essay as a useful resource on the strike, labor history, and Calvin Coolidge. I therefore intend to keep it on the Web indefinitely.
Aside from some minor corrections, this version is identical to the one I submitted, now on file at the Harvard Depository. The suggested citation is, Zachary Moses Schrag, "Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor" (A.B. thesis, Harvard University, 1992).
Contents
1. Introduction | 2.
The American Federation of Labor | 3:"Bolshevism"
4. The General Strike | 5.
Conclusions | Bibliography