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In June 1827 some 600 Philadelphia journeymen carpenters—that is, the wage laborers employed by master carpenters—went on strike for the citywide establishment of the ten-hour day. [3] Carpenters in Boston, Massachusetts, similarly struck for a ten-hour workday in 1825 and 1832. However, the strikes were unsuccessful at shortening the work day.
West Virginia miners went on strike the following day in protest. 18 March 1970 (United States) The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the United States Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, [ 42 ] soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees.
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 ...
Banner from the 1835 Philadelphia general strike promoting the ten-hour workday. In the lower right-hand corner is written the slogan 6 to 6. Also the worker points to the clock which shows six indicating it is time to stop working. In the United States, Philadelphia carpenters went on strike in 1791 for the ten-hour day.
The longer the picket line, the shorter the strike; No Gods, No Masters was a slogan first used during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. It was since adopted by early 20th century feminists and later anarchists and members of the Occupy Movement. The only force that can break tyrannical rule is the one big union of all the workers [9] (Wobbly ...
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, a nationwide railroad shop workers strike, began on July 1. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages for railway repair and maintenance workers would be cut by seven cents on July 1. This cut, which represented an average 12 percent wage decrease for the ...
Thousands of film and TV writers on strike joined picket lines in L.A. and across the nation. Many voiced their grievances through memorable signs.