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November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis. Final agreement comes on December 10. November 7 – The first of the Palmer Raids is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution : over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S ...
1918 – Daylight saving time is first adopted; 1919 – Treaty of Versailles agreed to by victorious powers. 1919 – President Wilson has a massive stroke. First Lady Edith Wilson takes over in a "silent coup". 1919 – United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations; 1919 – 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition
1919: The Year That Changed America is a 2019 non-fiction children's book by American author Martin W. Sandler.The book details various events from 1919, including the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, "which led to building code, municipal oversight, and corporate liability precedents", the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, racial tensions, the Red Scare, changing labor conditions, and the ...
Becoming the wealthiest country at the time and in turn dramatically shifting the position of US business owners; giving them more power in shaping industries and loaning foreign capital. [25] As such following the end of the war, an 'attack' on organized labor began with increased anti-union and open shop efforts , coming to prominence in 1920.
The following events occurred in September 1919: Governor of Massachusetts Calvin Coolidge inspects the militia during the Boston police strike . Austrian chancellor Karl Renner addresses the delegates during the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye that formally dissolved the Austrian Empire and established the First Austrian Republic .
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