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[8] [9] As the chosen date approached, U.S. labor unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight-hour day. [9] On Saturday, May 1, thousands of workers who went on strike and attended rallies held throughout the United States sang the anthem "Eight Hour." The song's chorus reflected the ideology of the Great Upheaval, "Eight Hours ...
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)
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.
1886 songs (10 P) V. Music venues completed in 1886 (5 P) Pages in category "1886 in music" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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.
Strikes also took place that same month (May 1886) in other cities, including in Milwaukee, where seven people died when Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk ordered state-militia troops to fire upon thousands of striking workers who had marched to the Milwaukee Iron Works Rolling Mill in Bay View, on Milwaukee's south side.
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 ...
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.