Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very centre of the paralyzed region, in his office at San Francisco's City Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf...
...Francisco the country had a wolf indeed. Into Mayor Rossi's office hurried five other Bay city mayors. Sixty thousand of their 1,200,000 citizens had laid down their tools, left their jobs. Like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, conscientious Mayor Rossi is of Italian parentage. Born in Volcano, Calif, in 1878, he got his start in life ten years later by delivering flowers in San Francisco, rose to be president of big Pelicano Rossi Floral Co. He got his start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed...
...Mayor Rossi thereupon swore in 500 more police, called for 2,000 more militiamen. By Monday the entire National Guard of California was under arms, and 5,000 guardsmen were in San Francisco...
...soldiers no longer controlled San Francisco, nor the police, nor Mayor Rossi, nor the citizens, nor the newspapers. The man who had a half-Nelson on San Francisco was an Australian Communist named Harry Bridges. Chairman of the joint committee of maritime workers and chairman of the strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people...
...arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should it knuckle down? San Francisco Labor chose its course, to make the public and back of the public the State and back of the State the employers bow to its power. When the State in the person of Mayor Rossi in San Francisco, of Governor Merriam in Sacramento and, remote in the Pacific, of President Roosevelt, took up the challenge, the stage was set for social...