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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.
Great Southwest railroad strike: 1886 nationwide 200,000 U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970: 1970 nationwide 200,000 1927 Indiana bituminous strike: 1927 nationwide
Number of workers on strike by year Strikes 1881 [3] 130,176 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike; 1882 158,802 1883 170,275 Camp Dump strike; 1884 165,175 1885 258,129 1886 610,024 Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886; Bay View massacre; Haymarket affair; 1887 439,306 Thibodaux massacre (Sugar cane workers' strike) 1888 162,880 1889 260,290 1890 ...
The Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a Knights 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.
March–September – Great Southwest Railroad Strike, a labor union strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers. [ 4 ] March 30 – Executives from several railroad companies operating in the southern United States meet and agree to all regauge their railroads to standard gauge , 1,435 mm ...
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike The Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 , an 1886 strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads The Flint sit-down strike , also the great GM sit down strike, a 1936–1937 strike against General Motors
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In March 1886, the Knights of Labor struck the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 idled 200,000 rail workers. But by the beginning of the summer of 1886, the strike was beginning to collapse—and it was taking the Knights with it. FOTLU was also in crisis.