Mayor Edwin Curtis clashes with Gov. Calvin Coolidge.

The two men meet at the Commonwealth Armory. According to Francis Russell, when Coolidge continues to refuse to call out the state National Guard to quell the rioting that results from the Boston Police strike, Curtis slugs the governor in a stairwell of the building. Coolidge subsequently calls out the state units, and replies to a telegram from Samuel Gompers “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.” It is later suggested that the statement leads to Coolidge becoming vice president in 1920.*