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[quote=YINDUFFY,304178]Yes, it has been shown that Anti-immigration feelings were prominent during heir trial for murder and robbery. However, it was a trail by jury. 
   Yes, they were Italian immigrants.  Ethnic tensions were not distinctive to the post-WW1 period. Just about every ethnic group - even Irish-Americans: of which I am one - have had a period of tough times. 
   In the 1920's newspapers were the primary news medium. Radio was just starting and there was to TV and Newspapers made their money by selling papers. Sensational headlines helped sell papers so the "threat" of all these immigrants was hyped. 
  Also labor Unions were active and working for more rights and benefits for their members. Company owners did not like the threat of having  to pay higher wages for an 8 hour day and a five day workweek. They attacked the Unions and associated the recent immigrants from Europe with them. Eventually by 1940 labor laws had changed and a lot of the Unions request were made law.
    Now immigrants from other countries are arriving and in some neighborhoods they are beginning the process of assimilating.

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