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1922 UMW General coal strike: 1922 nationwide 560,000 1952 steel strike: 1952 nationwide 540,000 [1] [2] 1971 Rail strike: 1971 nationwide 519,000 Steel strike of 1959: 1959 nationwide 500,000 [3] 1956 steel strike: 1956 nationwide 500,000 [4] 1949 steel strike: 1949 naionwide 459,000 [5] 1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1 ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)
Labor actions have long been a part of U.S. history, continuing to this day with strikes by the UAW and Hollywood actors and writers. American History: 28 Worker Strikes That Were Incredibly Memorable
In 1914 one of the most bitter labor conflicts in American history took place at a mining colony in Colorado called Ludlow. After workers went on strike in September 1913 with grievances ranging from requests for an eight-hour day to allegations of subjugation, Colorado governor Elias Ammons called in the National Guard in October 1913. That ...
1935 – Terre Haute General Strike, July 22–23, A labor dispute between an enameling company and a labor union led to a two-day general strike. Indiana National Guard was called out and martial law was declared by the Governor. The city was under a state of martial law for six months. It was the third general strike in U.S. History.
New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy (1987) White, Ahmed. The last great strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the struggle for labor rights in New Deal America (U of California Press, 2016) online; Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 1935–1955 (1995). online; Zieger, Robert H. John L. Lewis : labor leader (1988) online
Strike 2 At least two tailors died as police confronted a street mob of about 300 strikers, mostly German, with clubs. [2] These deaths stand as the "first recorded strike fatalities in U.S. history". [3] July 7, 1851 Portage, New York: Railroad Strike 2 Two striking workers of the New York and Erie Railroad were shot and killed by police officers.