1. The strike by Boston police in 1919 was unpopular with many Americans because it seemed that the police were sacrificing their role as public servants and because, in the wake of the communist revolution in Russia, such labor agitation appeared to some to be led by communist agitators.
2. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming the state's 48th governor; his response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action.
3. It drove labor costs up for US steel at a time when competition with steel industries in Japan and Europe was tight.
4. President Wilson asked Congress to pass a six-point act which would establish an eight-hour day as the legal basis for railroad work, as well as overtime benefits.