but they don't the they don't have police per se but there there is a labor war veterans

guard organized to keep the peace and uh they have a blackboard at their HQ that says

the purpose of this organization is to preserve law and order without the use of force

no volunteer will have any police power or be allowed to carry weapons purpose of this organization is to preserve law and order without the use of force.

No volunteer will have any police power or be allowed to carry weapons of any sort,

but to use persuasion only.

And according to the statistics we have,

crime actually decreased during the strike.

And that's with soldiers stationed in the city and many nearby.

There's a army camp, Lewis, and then thousands of newly enlisted deputies, and they're all on standby, but as Winslow writes, the regular police were reduced to onlookers, and the generals hesitated, because

this is going so peacefully that it would be really bad if they just stepped in and went all bootstrap and started

shooting and punching people um and off the streets Seattle was a festival uh swenzlow calls it

the union halls the co-op markets,

feeding stations and neighborhood centers were filled with workers and their families

gathering, hanging out.

On Saturday night, there was a dance.

And then a big rally on the Monday night

and it attracted a crowd so large

that the building had to be evacuated.

So I guess one of the fire people was still doing their job.