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The Great Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry. The AFL formed a coalition of 24 unions, all of which had grown rapidly during World War I.
Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
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 ...
Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919; Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919; Steel strike of 1919; UMW Coal Strike of 1919; 1919 New England Textile Strike [8]: 122 1919 New York Longshoremen strike [9] [10] 1920 1,463,054 1920 Alabama coal strike; Denver streetcar strike; 1921 1,099,247 1922 1,612,562 Great Railroad Strike of 1922; UMW General ...
The novel focuses on the steelworkers' attempt to unionize from 1889, the first Homestead strike (mentioned by Andrej on p. 38) through the big Homestead Steel Strike of 1892, the Great Steel Strike of 1919 right after World War I, and the events of the 1930s.
Strike wave of 1919: 1919 nationwide 750,000–800,000 1946 Steel Strike: 1946 nationwide 675,000 1983 AT&T strike: 1983 nationwide 610,000 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 ...
1913 El Paso smelters' strike; 1913 Ipswich Mills strike; 1913 Paterson silk strike; 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike; 1916 Atlanta streetcar strike; 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike; 1916–1917 Springfield streetcar strike; 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike; 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 General Steel ...
1917–1919 Brazil strike movement; 1918–1919 United Kingdom police strikes; 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot; 1919 General Steel Strike; 1919 New York City Harbor strike