File talk:1912 Lawrence Textile Strike 1.jpg

"Surrounded"

I was about to object to this apparent photo, which prominently features a line of soldiers with fixed bayonets, ready to resist a crowd of demonstrators whose goal appears to be the ground or facility behind that line -- that looks like a confrontation, not a surrounding. What takes more care is to see that there are soldiers forming a line from the right edge of the image probably to where they start to be hidden by the flags, one of them probably not having the same World-War-I-style headgear as the others. There are probably civilians behind that left-front-facing line, but it is extremely likely that they are bystanders who've approached after the encirclement.
--Jerzy•t 05:14, 12 November 2009 (UTC)