Word: sochi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred excited Japanese strikers and sochi ("hired thugs")* arrived with the cordwood. Slamming the door in their faces, Singer Assistant Manager Gilbert Parsons shot the bolt, raised an alarm and led the few Singer office workers who had not gone out to lunch up four flights of stairs to the roof...
Swinging their cordwood. the sochi and strikers broke down Singer's front door, broke in through Singer windows, beat typewriters to smithereens, poured ink over Singer ledgers, smashed office furniture and seized Singer records of tens of thousands of Japanese who are paying for Singers on the instalment plan. Tearing these records to shreds, the attackers then pulped the shreds by dumping them into a convenient canal...