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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts) Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:01 PM Jul 2015

7-24-15 America’s First General Strike in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/july-24-americas-first-general-strike/

July 24, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1877. Workers organized the first general strike in American history. The strike was an outgrowth of the railroad strike which you may know, if you are a regular listener of Labor History in 2:00, that started ten days earlier in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

2:00 audio at link.

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7-24-15 America’s First General Strike in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2015 OP

"The strike was ended when some 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized special police Zorra Jul 2015 #1

Zorra

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1. "The strike was ended when some 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized special police

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Mon Jul 27, 2015, 09:28 PM

Jul 2015

killed at least eighteen people in skirmishes around the city. On July 28, 1877, they took control of the Relay Depot, the Commune's command center, and arrested some seventy strikers.[1] With the leadership imprisoned, the strikers surrendered, the wage cuts remained, and 131 strike leaders were fired by the Burlington Railroad."[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_St._Louis_general_strike

Thanks. Wouldn't it be nice to have leaders who genuinely supported working people?

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