The intervention of Governor Murphy of Michigan prevented widespread violence in the automobile industries of that state. but in June 1937 there was open warfare In South Chicago where police. defending the property of Republic Steel. killed ten people (p. 979). And there have been racial riots. Morison records those during and at the end of World War I: Another source of trouble. which the peddlers of hate whipped up. was the northward move of many Southern Negroes to work in war industries and better their conditions. This. as usual. was resented by white workers. especially recent immigrants. and led to bloody riots. In one at East St. Louis.
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