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'''August Mencken Sr.''' (1854–1899) was an American cigar magnate who founded Aug. Mencken & Bro. in 1873 with a starting capital of $23 of his own money and $21 of his brother's. A member of [[Baltimore|Baltimore's]] [[German-American]] community, Mencken was a high-tariff Republican who ran a nonunion factory, viewed the [[eight-hour day]] as a foreign innovation destined to destroy America, and drank rye whiskey before every meal, including breakfast.

In about 1889, the Baltimore local [[Cigar Makers' International Union]] called a strike. The union did not have the funds to pay full benefits to members; the best it could manage was the $2.10 cost of a ticket to [[Philadelphia]], which had so many cigar shops it was known as the Cigarmaker's Heaven. The only proof that it required of a candidate's profession were the tools of the trade: a [[buxus|boxwood]] cutting-board and cutting tools. The anti-union Mencken acquired a large quantity of the tools, rounded up a large number of drunks and tramps, gave them a shot of whiskey and a set of the tools, and sent them to Union headquarters for their tickets. In the course of a few weeks, according to Mencken himself, "at least a thousand poor bums were run through the mill." The union went broke and was effectively destroyed, and the strike was broken.

In 1879, August married the German-American Anna Margaret Abhau (1858–1925). Their first child, [[H. L. Mencken|Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken]], was born there in Baltimore in 1880 and their second, [[August Mencken Jr.]], was born in 1889.

==See also==
* [[History of the Germans in Baltimore, Maryland]]

==References==
* Henry Louis Mencken, ''The days of H. L. Mencken: Happy days, Newspaper days, Heathen days''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1947)

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