[LABOR HISTORIAN] GIFFORD HARTMAN: The end of November 1946... women at department stores in Oakland, two department stores, Khan's and Hastings, had been on strike for a month. The city elite decided to break the strike. They brought in 400 police who escorted a professional strike-breaking company on December 1, 1946, and they ran through the city. The cops cleared the streets, beat people off the streets, bullied them and broke the strike, but in breaking the strike... Read and watch: Crooks and Liars
