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The 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 states struck against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads, owned by Jay Gould. At least ten people were killed.
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)
Pages in category "1886 songs" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cluck Old Hen; D.
Charles Bordes – Paysages Tristes (song cycle) George Whitefield Chadwick – Symphony No. 2 op. 21 in B-flat (revision) Felix Draeseke – String Quartet No. 2 op. 35 in E minor, Piano Concerto op. 36 in E-flat, Symphony No. 3 in C major Tragica; Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 2 op. 45 in G minor; Arthur Foote – In the Mountains ...
The Bay View massacre (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 who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.
A highly experimental work, The Gong on the Hook and Ladder famously quotes three different melodies: first, Oh My Darling, Clementine, played by the flute in bar 12 and the violin at the end of the piece in bar 32; then, a Psi Upsilon marching song from Yale entitled Few Days, played by the trumpet in bar 19; finally, Marching through Georgia ...
An 1878 graduate, Gayley composed the lyrics in 1886 while he was a professor of English and Latin at UM. He was motivated to write the song in hopes of winning a $20 prize from the student editors of the yearbook (The Palladium). As he wrote the lyrics, Gayley was thinking of the school colors, "azure blue and maize."
Pages in category "1880s strikes in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886; H.