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    Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry...
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  • The steel strike of 1959 was a 116-day labor union strike (July 15 – November 7, 1959) by members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) that idled...
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  • Massachusetts 1919Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 Pennsylvania 1919 – Coal Strike of 1919, November 1 – December 10 Pennsylvania 1919 – Centralia...
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    The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries...
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    fueled a general sense of concern. Add to this was the ongoing steel strike of 1919, an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and...
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    The 1952 steel strike was a strike by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) against U.S. Steel (USS) and nine other steelmakers. The strike was scheduled...
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    Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began...
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    first Socialist mayor, elected in the midst of the 1919 General Steel Strike. "Former mayor of steel city is dead at 80". Buffalo Courier Express. Buffalo...
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    railroad strike since the American Railway Union's Pullman Strike of 1894 and the biggest American strike of any kind since the Great Steel Strike of 1919. During...
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  • miners, rail and steel workers in the Pittsburgh region. (December 1946) Others included strikes of railroad workers and general strikes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania;...
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  • A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade...
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    opposed a strike in the steel industry, 98% of their union members voted to strike beginning on September 22, 1919. It shut down half the steel industry...
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    Gary, Indiana (category U.S. Steel)
    of the United States Steel Corporation. Gary was the site of civil unrest in the 1919 General Steel Strike. On October 4, 1919, a riot broke out on Broadway...
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  • general strike, in 1919. Spartacist uprising, including strikes, in 1919. Ruhr uprising, in 1920. Cuno strikes, in 1923. 1932 Berlin transport strike...
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    striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign...
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  • because it was "a mostly white middleclass housing project." Adjutant General Roderic L. Hill of the California National Guard arrived at SFPD headquarters...
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  • Buffalo Workers", The New York Times, September 19, 1919. Brody, Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919, 1987; Brody, Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion...
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    organize packinghouse industry workers during World War I and the steel strike of 1919. Foster is often incorrectly referred to with the middle name "Zebulon"...
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    Canadian Labour Revolt (category General strikes in Canada)
    by the TLC. In March 1919, radical unions left the TLC and formed the One Big Union. The OBU organized over 100 general strikes by 1925, the most prominent...
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  • include: 1946 US Steel Strike 1952 steel strike Steel strike of 1959 1974 Elliot Lake miners strike Steel strike of 1986 Membership (US records) Finances...
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    Brody, Labor in crisis: The steel strike of 1919 (1965). Whaples, Robert (1990). "Winning the Eight-Hour Day, 1909–1919". The Journal of Economic History...
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    contribute funds or staff to support the strike. By November, most AA local affiliates had collapsed. The Steel strike of 1919 collapsed on January 8, 1920. AA...
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    1937 Memorial Day massacre (category 1937 labor disputes and strikes)
    Steel strike in the United States. The incident arose after U.S. Steel signed a union contract but smaller steel manufacturers (called 'Little Steel')...
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    Henry Clay Frick (category American steel industry businesspeople)
    Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, called by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers...
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  • of 1919 Auto-Lite strike (1934) 1935 Cincinnati riot Women's day massacre (1937) Pennsylvania 1919 General Steel Strike Philadelphia transit strike of...
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    Homestead strike and was a precursor to the Great Steel Strike of 1919. Frank Norton Hoffstot's Pressed Steel Car Company, sited downstream from Pittsburgh...
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    associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers. During the Second Red...
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    The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression...
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    The General Strike of 1910 was a labor strike by trolley workers of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company that grew to a citywide riot and general strike...
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    Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees...
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