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"And the imprisonment of union activists under a special California criminal Syndicalism. I never get this word right. Syndicalism. Syndicalism, yes, act anyway. It was a law that was designed to criminalize the activities of the IWW as a threat to public order. LA was an open shop town very much opposed to union organizing and the city and maritime companies responded to the strike with force, employing both the police and the Ku Klux Klan as strike breakers."