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An estimated 15,000 building tradesmen in the East Bay had laid down their tools; now they were joined by some 2 7,000 workers affiliated with Central Labor Council local unions. The East Bay's street car system and the Key System ferries halted operations; commuters who flocked to the still-operat…

Employees of the city's major streetcar line, the privately owned Market Street Railway, had walked out at 2:00 A.M. Sunday for their own demands rather than in sympathy with the general strike. Carmen on the Municipal Railway met, then without the formality of a vote, simply failed to show up for …

Paul Smith, writing as the Chronicle's financial editor, found business activity "slowly throbbing like a waning pulse to an almost lifeless standstill." Business leaders rushed plans for emergency operations, markets were dull. Elevator operators and janitors"unorganized and intimidated" was Smith…

THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT for the New York Times arrived at San Francisco's diminutive airport, Mills Field, at 5:15 Monday morning (July 16). He and his fellow passengers had been warned there would be no transportation from the airport into the city, so they hitched rides with friends meeting two…

That evening, Mayor Rossi summoned Lapham and Phleger to his office. He had issued a second proclamation of emergency, assuming a broad array of municipal powers. As Lapham remembered the conversation, the mayor was hoping there was some way it could be settled, even at the last moment, perhaps by …