• The Georgia Railroad strike of 1909, also known as the Georgia race strike, was a labor strike that involved white firemen working for the Georgia Railroad...
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    Company, the main railroads, the main labor unions, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott...
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    The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and...
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    "Saving Face Without Words: A Confucian Perspective on The Strike of 1867". "The great railroad strike, 1877 – Howard Zinn". libcom.org. Koepnick, Brian (1996)...
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    railroad strike of 1877 was a series of work stoppages and civil unrest in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred as part of the larger national strikes and...
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    Pittsburgh railway strike occurred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It was one of many incidents of strikes, labor unrest...
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    Line. In 1909, white firemen of the Georgia Railroad, organized under the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, went on a mass strike. With the...
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    List of striking United States workers by year (category Strikes in the United States)
    Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations it cites...
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    The Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909, also known as the 1909 McKees Rocks strike, was an American labor strike which lasted from July 13 through September...
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    1899 strike in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, demonstrated that the unions could win a strike directed against a subsidiary of one of the large railroads. It...
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    Line Railroad, chartered in 1887, was an air-line railroad in Georgia. It began operations between Waycross and Sessoms in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had...
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    AA strike at the Homestead steel mill in 1892 was different from previous large-scale strikes in American history such as the Great Railroad Strike of...
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    railroad strike of 1877 involved several days of work stoppage and violence in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1877. It formed a part of the Great Railroad Strike...
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  • Conditions: The Railroad Strike of 1946". The National WWII Museum. 28 May 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022. Universal Newsreels. "Rail Strike Paralyzes Entire...
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  • Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Baltimore railroad strike in Baltimore, Maryland Chicago railroad strike of 1877, Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia Railroad Strike...
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    Louis general strike was one of the first general strikes in the United States. It grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The strike was largely...
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  • General Strike occurred. 1885 (United States) McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Strike occurred. 1885 (United States) Southwest Railroad Strike occurred...
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    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 in Philadelphia...
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  • - Firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike to protest the hiring of African-Americans. May 26 – Los Angeles Pacific Railroad begins passenger service over...
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    1877 Shamokin uprising (category Great Railroad Strike of 1877)
    as one of the several cities in the state where strikes occurred as part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It was the first in the United States in...
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    months. The railroads simply hired replacements, among them African-American strikebreakers, and withstood diminishing union pressure. The strike was eventually...
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    The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the...
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  • strikebreakers to the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916. [citation needed] He was hired to break a strike at the Erie Railroad in 1920, for which he was paid...
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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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    streetcar strike of 1913 and the subsequent police mutiny and riots was a civil conflict in Indianapolis, Indiana. The events began as a workers strike by the...
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  • shopmen's strike of 1911 was a labor action in the United States of a number of railroad workers unions against the Illinois Central Railroad, beginning...
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    States Railroad brotherhoods List of American railway unions Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 Great Railroad Strike of...
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    Bay View massacre (category 1880s strikes in the United States)
    (sometimes also referred to as the Bay View Tragedy) was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers...
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    Spring Creek raid (1909) Others Railroad Wars (1864–1912) Fence Cutting Wars Sheep wars (1870–1920) Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894 Pacific Coast...
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    Spring Creek raid (1909) Others Railroad Wars (1864–1912) Fence Cutting Wars Sheep wars (1870–1920) Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894 Pacific Coast...
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