Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. ... The One Big Union had been inspired by the Russian Revolution and with a solid socialist leadership was quickly able to claim the majority of the western Canadian and Northern Ontario labor movement within its ranks. Throughout 1917 and 1918 anti-alien sentiment continued to grow. ... When the Bolshevik's victory in Russia was complete these complaints grew more common. ... By portraying it as nothing less than a Russian Revolution transplante...

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At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." ... Palmer used the laws set down in 1917 to deport members of the IWW. ... There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ...

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