by
Fred Glass
The Oakland General Strike had ended, but the Kahn’s and Hastings workers who started it all were still on strike. The immediate result of more than one hundred thousand workers taking to the streets was simply an agreement that the city would no longer allow its police to protect strikebreakers. Yet, almost immediately, police were again escorting strikebreakers through the picket lines at Kahn’s and Hastings. Although angry at this violation of the agreement, AFL union leaders were nonetheless not about to call another general strike. What they did do was quite effective, however, in its own way.