The Big Strike

Mike Quin

ISBN 10: 0717805042 / ISBN 13: 9780717805044

Published by Intl Pub, 1979

A bright, square, and overall a nice copy. Seller Inventory # WAL-H-6f-001918

Synopsis:

Excerpt from The Big Strike

In San Francisco, July 1934, the laboring population laid down its tools in a General Strike.

An uncanny quiet settled over the acres of buildings. For all practical purposes not a wheel moved nor a lever budged. The din of commercial activity gave way to a murmur of voices in the streets.

Along the Embarcadero and in front of the National Guard Armory self-conscious-looking schoolboys wearing steel helmets and ill-fitting khaki uniforms paced up and down fingering heavy automatic rifles.

Highways leading out of the city bore a continuous stream of expensive cars carrying well-to-do refugees to distant sanctuaries. They were fleeing from bombs and rioting mobs.

There were no bombs.

There were no rioting mobs.

These existed only in the pages of the daily press which characterized the event as a Bolshevik revolution, and conjured up visions of tempestuous throngs sweeping, torch in hand, through the city streets.

Telephone and telegraph wires burned like an inflamed nervous system.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Big Strike
Publisher: Intl Pub
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good