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Streetcar strikes rank among the deadliest armed conflicts in American labor union history. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor called the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 "the fiercest struggle ever waged by the organized toilers" [ 4 ] up to that point, with a total casualty count of 14 dead and about 200 wounded, more than ...
As the strike loomed, one of the prominent officials of San Francisco's United Railroads, Patrick Calhoun, contracted with the nationally known "King of the Strikebreakers" James A. Farley, for four hundred replacement workers waiting on board ship. The streetcar Carmen's Union struck on May 5, 1907, for an 8-hour day and $3 per day. [1]
Streetcar strikes rank among the deadliest armed conflicts in American labor union history. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor called the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 "the fiercest struggle ever waged by the organized toilers" [21] up to that point, with a total casualty count of 14 dead and about 200 wounded. The San ...
The St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900 was a labor action, and resulting civil disruption, against the St. Louis Transit Company by a group of three thousand workers unionized by the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees of America. Between May 7 and the end of the strike in September, 14 people had been killed, and 200 wounded.
El Paso smelters' strike; Indianapolis streetcar strike; Copper Country strike of 1913–1914; 1914 Unavailable 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike; 1915 Unavailable Bayonne refinery strikes; 1916 [2] 1,559,917 1916 Atlanta streetcar strike; 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike; 1917 1,227,254 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike
1907 San Francisco streetcar strike; 1910 Columbus streetcar strike; 1916 Atlanta streetcar strike; 1916–1917 Springfield streetcar strike; 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike; 1950 Atlanta transit strike
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 Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 and the subsequent police mutiny and riots was a civil conflict in Indianapolis, Indiana.The events began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company and their allies on Halloween night, October 31, 1913.