‘Bare Fists at Bayonne Cannot Overcome Power of State’ by Chester M. Wright from The American Socialist. Vol. 2 No. 5. August 14, 1915.

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‘Bare Fists at Bayonne Cannot Overcome Power of State’ by Chester M. Wright from The American Socialist. Vol. 2 No. 5. August 14, 1915.

The story of getting Socialist papers into the strike zone at Bayonne, New Jersey in July, 1915. Thousands of largely Polish workers, doing 6-day, 84-hour weeks for $2.50 a day, and without a union, struck John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and Tidewater Petroleum. Intense violence between local police, security guards, ‘deputies’ and strikers with their […]