The General Strike in Minneapolis

On the 25th of the huge labor convention is to take place in St. Paul and the idea of a general strike is now being thrown around. This brought the US Secretary or into it a general strike would be a big problem for the war effort. The governor tries to show he is not anti-laborate. He fires one of the commissioners. 15,000 union members stopped working in the morning and they go to a meeting at the St Paul Auditorium. And they declared they went back to the streetcar unions and demanded McGee and another commissioner be fired. But they decided to wait a week to vote on a general strike in order to give the feds time to act and maybe work