The Burlington railroad strike of 1888 was a failed union strike which pitted the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (B of LE), the Brotherhood of Locomotive...
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railroad strike of 1888, against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad The Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912 The Chicago railroad strike of 1877 The 1894...
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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as...
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July...
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Charles Elliott Perkins (category People from Burlington, Iowa)
8, 1907) was an American businessman and president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was so well respected that historian Richard Overton...
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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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Pacific Junction, Iowa (redirect from History of Pacific Junction, Iowa)
of violence during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, PJ's population peaked during the early 20th century with just over 700 people. Railroad traffic...
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Eugene V. Debs (category Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives)
influence was his involvement in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, a defeat for labor that convinced Debs of "the need to reorganize across craft...
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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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Peter M. Arthur (category Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen people)
leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) for many years. He led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888, and...
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Brakemen's Brotherhood (category History of rail transportation in the United States)
having a presence in the Burlington railroad strike of 1888. The Brakemen's Brotherhood was supplanted with the establishment of a new railway fraternal...
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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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Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike involving more than 200,000 workers. Beginning on March 1, 1886, railroad workers in five...
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Northern Pacific Railway (redirect from Rocky Mountain Railroad of Montana)
professional railroader, Robert Harris, former head of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. For the next four years, until the return of the Villard...
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Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association (redirect from Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America)
During the summer and fall of 1888, following the loss of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy strike, officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and...
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Frank P. Sargent (category Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen people)
chief Sargent played a role in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888 as well as the 1894 Great Northern Railroad strike conducted by the American Railway...
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L. W. Rogers (category Wisconsin State Federation of Labor people)
and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Rogers was fired from his position on the latter road during the Burlington railroad strike of 1888, when he supported...
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City Harbor strike started on January 9, 1919. It involved 15,000–16,000 workers striking after it was called by the executive committee of the Marine...
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failed Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888 against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. In 1889 it was affiliated with the Supreme Council of United...
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to railroads. 1888 (United States) International Association of Machinists founded. 1888 (United States) Burlington Railroad Strike occurred. 1888 (United...
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Union violence in the United States (category Labor history of the United States)
prosecutions. During the 1888 strike against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, workers were arrested for wrecking a train. When one of those arrested...
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first strike by organized labor in Nebraska and the first Omaha riot to receive national attention. Approximately 75 workers from a Burlington Railroad grading...
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Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 Great Railroad Strike of 1922 1992 United States railroad strike Railroads in New England Timeline of United States...
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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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transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built...
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The 2020 Port of Montreal strike began at 7:00 AM on August 10, 2020, after Local 375 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (Syndicat des débardeurs...
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Oskaloosa, Iowa (redirect from History of Oskaloosa, Iowa)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. On January 6, 1882, most of the buildings in the north half of Oskaloosa were severely damaged and most of the plate...
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switchmen's strike was a two-week strike in August 1892 by railroad workers employed by three railroads in Buffalo, New York. The strike collapsed after...
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Spring Valley, Illinois (redirect from History of Spring Valley, Illinois)
was called the "Magic City." In less than four years, by 1888, the Chicago North Western railroad had laid a line from DeKalb, Illinois, four mines had been...
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employees of SEPTA Regional Rail, represented by 12 different labor unions, went on strike following the breakdown in negotiations over the terms of new labor...
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