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Even before the strike began, the press begged the unions to reconsider.

In part they were frightened by some of labor ’ s rhetoric, like the labor newspaper editorial that proclaimed: " We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by labor in this country .... We are starting on a road that leads – NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!

" Daily newspapers saw the general strike as a foreign import: " This is America – not Russia ," one said when denouncing the general strike.

The non-striking part of Seattle's population imagined the worst and stocked up on food.

Hardware stores sold their stock of guns.