PAX Centurion - Fall 2016

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After the strike, the city paid the new Officers the same amount of money the striking Police Officers had requested with better working conditions and additional holidays, plus free uniforms. The Officers were never allowed back on the job and most took employment with other departments outside of the State and some had to take on jobs as laborers. Governor Coolidge would be re-elected on November 4, 1919. One year later he would become Vice President of the United States and when President Warren G. Harding died, he became the 30 th President of the United States. James Michael Curley would defeat Mayor Peters. TheAFL would not try to organize a Police Union for over twenty years. It is still illegal to go on strike. But the groundwork was set for the new Union, the BPPA, to be established.