Seattle printers refuse to print anti-labor ad in newspaper - 1919

A confrontation between American Legionnaires and Wobblies during an Armistice Day Parade in Centralia, Wash. results in six deaths. One Wobbly reportedly was beaten, his teeth bashed in with a rifle butt, castrated and hanged: local officials listed his death as a suicide - 1919

Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours - 1919