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The 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers' strike was a general strike performed by furniture workers in Grand Rapids, which was then a national leader of furniture production. Furniture businessmen of Grand Rapids held control of the city's industry and banking sectors, growing so influential that they were able to price fix national furniture production. While Grand Rapids' economy grew, the wages of furniture laborers did not increase, with the city's furniture businesses collaborating on controlling their workers by establishing identical wages and creating an identification system that monitored the political sympathies and productivity of individual employees.

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  • 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers' strike (en)
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  • The 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers' strike was a general strike performed by furniture workers in Grand Rapids, which was then a national leader of furniture production. Furniture businessmen of Grand Rapids held control of the city's industry and banking sectors, growing so influential that they were able to price fix national furniture production. While Grand Rapids' economy grew, the wages of furniture laborers did not increase, with the city's furniture businesses collaborating on controlling their workers by establishing identical wages and creating an identification system that monitored the political sympathies and productivity of individual employees. (en)
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  • Riot police of the Grand Rapids Police Department in 1911 (en)
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  • * Increased wages * Revised work hours * Establishment collective bargaining (en)
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  • Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Schrembs (en)
  • Francis D. Campau ---- Reverend Wesley Wishart (en)
  • Garrit Verburg (en)
  • John Timmer (en)
  • William MacFarlane (en)
  • William Wenger ---- Mayor George E. Ellis (en)
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