Bloody Friday is the name of an event which occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 20, 1934, when police shot at truck drivers injuring 67 picketers and killing strikers John Belor and Henry Ness.
After this success Dunne and Skoglund looked to build on the momentum of the previous strike by focusing on the city’s market district and its major employers, who dealt in mostly perishable produce.
To combat the union the eleven market district firms formed an informal committee, back by the anti-union Citizens' Alliance, representing 166 local businesses that had truck driver employees in an attempt to broaden the conflict.
Many people called for the firing of Police Chief Michael Johannes whom they dubbed “Bloody Mike.” Governor Floyd B. Olson declared martial law after employers announced they would start moving trucks again.
Not long after Roosevelt’s visit, Jesse Jones, the head of the administration’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation, began making calls to local industrialists in Minnesota who relied on the RFC to meet their credit needs signaling to them that their relationship with the agency could be jeopardized if they continued to resist the Haas-Dunnigan Plan.
Where there were once fat lady races and all manner of inclusive participant run events,[1] in 1941 there was the Aqua Dears, a synchronized swimming troupe with strict height and weight limits of 5'4" and 125 lbs.
[5] The history of Aquatennial is events named and sponsored by business, in 1971 the milk carton boat race was launched by advertising agency Campbell Mithun, Inc,[6] even the capstone fireworks are Target branded.