U.S. railroad strike starts, later crushed when President Truman threatens to draft strikers – 1946

James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” published in IWW newspaper “Industrial Solidarity” - 1946 (but originally published in December 1911)

400,000 members of the United Mine Workers strike for higher wages and employer contributions to the union’s health and welfare fund. President Truman seizes the mines - 1946