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While workers at area shops threatened strikes, the Plume & Atwood Company declared a 9-hour day.

5,000 workers in area manufacturing companies went on strike; at Plume & Atwood, 200 women gathered outside and challenged the men inside to walk out.

Poster showing a workman in a shipyard.

Poster showing a mule "Industry" on a treadmill powering a factory, which is producing "Shoes," "Drugs," "Clothes," "Hats." The mule is bothered by files labeled "Strife," "Unfair laws," "Agitator," and "Taxation."

British artillery in action during World War I

French Renault FT tanks being operated by the United States Army during World War I.

World War I German Navy during 1917.

4,600 Vickers Machine Guns were purchased from the Colt Manufacturing Company by the US government to arm the military.