General strike

Westword from Nebraska which allowed the Central Pacific Railroad Company to build east word from California. In 1863 children began at the same time in Omaha and Sacramento and became a race after 1865. The construction chief of the union pacific was general Grenville M. Dodge while the construction cheif for the central pacific was Charles Crocker. His crews were attacked by Native Americans that were defending their lands however he had an advantage because he built over a flat Prairie. He…

As strikes became more frequent during the 1920s, strikes like the Alabama Coal Strike of 1920’s would be faced with heavy resistance from all sides, leading to the death or arrest of dozens of strikers. It was from the appallingly abysmal conditions that the miners had to go through, and how wealthy…

The Plant Closure of Electro-Motive Canada The General Motors Diesel Division/Electro-Motive Canada Plant in London, Ontario was born in 1950 after the Second World War. This was a huge success for the City of London. The Plant manufactured and built diesel and electric Locomotives, buses, light armoured vehicles, and had a sister plant in La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A., which we’re all destined for the North American railway freight marketplace. General Motors Corp also ran its automotive plants…

There were many significant labor strikes through the history of strikes in the United States. I chose the Textile Mill Strike of 1934; This strike particularly intrigued me because the Unions and labor laws were in their infancy stage and made a lot of mistakes along the way. This strike involved politicians, laws, and even touched the President at the time personally. This strike also affected the Northeastern part of the United States which is where we reside. First let us start with a…

Whether employees wish to join a union or not they have the rights to organize, create, support a labor union to bargain collectively with their employers. The NLRA encourages collective bargaining because it a tool that ensures healthy company- labor relations. The labor union sees itself as the primary representative that sits and exclusively bargain with the employer over employees’ rights to provide specific services. The Act protects the rights of workers on any discriminatory conduct that…

action with 150,000 members called for a strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company. Pullman was furious by the strike, Pullman closed the plant, intent on waiting out the workers. The members of the ARU called for the national membership to take over. The union voted to refuse to work on any train in the country that had a Pullman car, this put the passenger rail service came to…

In the year of 1934, The Great Depression was starting to affect the US.With this came a nationwide strike of the textile industry, which would become the most extensive battle the National Recovery Administration, or NRA, had to face. This seventeen day strike would become known as The National Textile Strike of 1934. Mill towns, in particular the Southern ones, were discontent, because the Depression was already affecting them by 1929. This was largely due to "stretch-out", which is…

For example, in 1877 a strike wave hit the railroads and the mines—reaching insurrectionary levels in some places—after the bosses cut wages by 25 percent. Eugene Debs grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, a town that served the corn-growing and hog-raising farmers and was tied by…

They also fought for higher wages, shorter hours and greater worker control in the face of increased mechanization. Then the Homestead Lookout occurred. Henry Clay Frick locked workers out of the mills and prepared to bring in strike breakers. The workers sounded the alarm and they were armed with rifles, hoes and fence posts. When they escaped they started killing people and killed at least thirty strikers. This action of the Homestead lookout, workers struck at the heart of…

were communist were often heavily suppressed, with violence, and destruction caused b.y both sides. An example would be the “Worker strikes occurred throughout the United States in support of the Bolsheviks. One strike led by a future radical communist, William Z. Foster, caused hundreds of thousands of steelworkers to walk off their jobs. In Seattle, a general strike led to the entire city being shut down for a lack of workers. Terrorism and violence led to injuries of hundreds across the…