Railroad Labor Disputes
Open Access
- 1 January 1967
- book
- Published by University of Michigan Library
Abstract
At Martinsburg, West Virginia, on July 16, 1877, angry laborers struck the B & O Railroad because of a 10 percent wage cut. Spontaneous strikes soon choked railroad service from Baltimore to St. Louis and from Buffalo to Louisville. The violent wave of discontent developed into the country's first...This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: