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Bess Pokorny 1902 - 1975

Bess Pokorny of Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois was born on March 29, 1902, and died at age 73 years old in June 1975.

Bess Pokorny
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Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois 60402
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March 29, 1902
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In 1902, in the year that Bess Pokorny was born, about 150 thousand United Mine Workers went on strike in eastern Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours. They eventually got a 10% raise and their workday was reduced from 10 hours to 9. Because winter was coming and most people at the time heated their homes with coal, President Teddy Roosevelt arbitrated between the owners and the workers - the first time that the Federal government arbitrated in a strike.
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In 1920, she was 18 years old when on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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Pokorny, Norman (Aug 12, 1903 - Feb 1970) Pokorny, Marguerite (Nov 8, 1917 - Jul 27, 2002) Pokorny, Louise (Dec 9, 1911 - Feb 11, 2005) Pokorny, William (Apr 7, 1916 - Nov 17, 1981) Pokorny, Beverly (Oct 13, 1927 - Dec 5, 2005) Pokorny, Paul (Jul 15, 1967 - Sep 14, 2008) Pokorny, Arthur (Mar 8, 1913 - Dec 14, 1989) Pokorny, Bertha (Sep 24, 1892 - Aug 1973) Pokorny, Ethel (Jul 21, 1909 - May 1987) Pokorny, Leona (Jan 10, 1905 - Nov 8, 2002)
Pokorny, Stella (May 7, 1900 - Dec 6, 1995) Pokorny, Scott (Jul 11, 1970 - Mar 11, 1994) Pokorny, Betty (May 25, 1919 - Mar 8, 2009) Pokorny, John (May 30, 1934 - May 12, 2004) Pokorny, Joseph (Nov 1, 1907 - Mar 23, 1990) Pokorny, Eugene (Feb 2, 1917 - Oct 1983) Pokorny, Mary (Jul 14, 1912 - Jun 1992) Pokorny, Joseph (Nov 14, 1936 - Mar 27, 2010) Pokorny, Cynthia (Jan 6, 1943 - Nov 5, 2005) Pokorny, Agnes (Mar 11, 1891 - Feb 1986)
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