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13161_22765_post_ww1_immigration
Subjects

1910s, 1920s
B&W

Soldier marches around his post protecting a train yard. Soldiers point a machine gun down at hundreds of strikers laying out on a lawn. Troops in various towns enforce martial law and cease property. Police try to evict people and have to fight with mobs. Communists are arrested and taken away in paddy wagons. Immigrants board boat to be shipped back to their home country from Ellis Island.