March 26

San Francisco brewery workers begin a 9 month strike as local employers follow the union-busting lead of the National Brewer’s Assn. and fire their
unionized workers, replacing them with scabs. Two unionized brewers refused to go along, kept producing beer, prospered wildly and induced the
Association to capitulate. A contract benefit since having unionized two years earlier, certainly worth defending: free beer - 1868

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