Schwarzkopf Trivia

I just found out some fascinating trivia about the father of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, H. Norman Schwazkopf. The senior Schwarzkopf was a colonel in the New Jersey state police in 1934 when migrant farmworkers in New Jersey went on strike. Schwarzkopf played an active role in getting rid of these people after the strike. When the owner of the Seabrook farm refused to rehire his black laborers after the strike ended, the good Colonel ordered all "agitators" out of the area within 24 hours or face forcible removal, a threat followed up on with all due force.

Says a bit about the politics of his son, don't you think?

From Mary Hahamovitch's The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.