July 21 Great Railroad Strike Erupts
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July 21 Great Railroad Strike Erupts

2017-07-21
On this day in labor history, the year was 1877. That was the day that some of the worst violence of the Great Railroad Strike erupted in Pittsburgh. The strike started days earlier. It is contested as to whether it began in Martinsburg, West Virginia or Baltimore. The strike spread rapidly along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to New York State, Pennsylvania and throughout the Midwest. At its height, the Great Railroad Strike involved well over 100,000 workers. The strike began on the...
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