Did the Bosses Try and Divide?

Spencer: Did the bosses try and divide people along race lines or anything? Yes. They weren't successful in this particular strike, which is something that makes it noteworthy, because this often worked. Often bosses would be successful in basically getting white laborers to throw black laborers under the bus to get better terms. So like that definitely happened a number of times, but it didn't work at this strike. It helped inspire one of America's few non-racist white guys at the time, Ralph Chaplin.