On this day, 26 March 1915, police in Sioux City arrested 14 members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union for holding Street meetings in an attempt to stop the union growing. IWW members started flooding the town and holding street meetings. When they were arrested they refused to cooperate in court and jail, and when set to work on a rock pile they went on strike and set fires in their cells, and more militants kept arriving. By late April the police caved in and agreed free speech for the IWW.
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