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The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. [5] The governor responded by sending in the National Guard to protect ...
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 ...
This strike marked perhaps the only time in American history that a state militia was called out to protect miners from sheriff's deputies. 21 April – June 1894 (United States) Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894 -- A two-month nationwide strike by miners of hard coal in the United States.
A Documentary History of Migratory Farm Labor in California: The California Cotton Pickers Strike, 1933 (Report). Oakland, Calif.: Federal Writers' Project. Bronfenbrenner, Kate (1990). "California Farmworkers' Strikes of 1933". In Filippelli, Ronald L. (ed.). Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing.
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]
He organized farmworkers to strike in California. Larry Itliong, arriving for a union meeting in the 1960s. Itliong among other Filipino-American leaders organized the 1965 Delano Grape Strike.
Homestead strike; Coeur d'Alene labor strike; Buffalo switchmen's strike; 1893 287,756 1894 690,044 Pullman Strike; Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894; Great Northern Railway strike; Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894; 1895 407,188 1896 248,838 Leadville miners' strike; 1897 416,154 Lattimer massacre; 1898 263,219 1899 431,889 Weight ...
At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California for a ninth day Timeline: How the LA fires erupted into the worst natural ...