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Keep the Wretches in Order - America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW (Hardcover)
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Keep the Wretches in Order - America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW (Hardcover)
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Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had
been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or
governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state
militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United
States entered the conflict in 1917, government and industry feared
that strikes would endanger war production; a more coordinated,
national strategy would be necessary. To prevent stoppages, the
Department of Justice embarked on a sweeping new effort-replacing
gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the
nation's most radical and innovative union, the Industrial Workers
of the World, also known as the Wobblies, resulting in the largest
mass trial in U.S. history. In the first legal history of this
federal trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork
for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats,
and had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As
the trial unfolded, it became an exercise of raw force, raising
serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility
of a criminal justice system under great external pressure.
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