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    The Boston police strike occurred on September 9, 1919, when Boston police officers went on strike seeking recognition for their trade union and improvements...
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    Boston Police Department (BPD), dating back to 1838, holds the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston...
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    politics, becoming the state's 48th governor. His response to the Boston police strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive...
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    labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups...
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  • was one of a handful police strikes in the United States since the Boston Police Strike of 1919, and was followed by a wave of police unrest in U.S. cities...
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  • began in June 1919. Within four months an ill-advised strike by the freshly chartered Boston Police Department resulted in four days of public disorder...
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  • Boston Police Strike, September 9–11, Boston, Massachusetts 1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 Pennsylvania 1919 – Coal Strike of...
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  • century was the Boston police strike. The strike was routinely cited by courts and officials through the end of the 1940s." It came in the strike-ridden year...
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    Edwin Upton Curtis (category Commissioners of the Boston Police Department)
    trade union formed by the department's officers provoked the 1919 Boston Police Strike. Curtis was the son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, who...
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