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Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
1917 Bloomington Streetcar Strike; 1918 1,239,989 1919 4,160,348 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 New York City Harbor Strike; Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919; Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919; Steel strike of 1919; UMW Coal Strike of 1919; 1919 New England Textile Strike [8]: 122 1919 New York Longshoremen strike [9] [10 ...
1919 – Western Labour Conference in Calgary leads to creation of One Big Union. 1919 – Winnipeg general strike. Two shot dead by police. 1919 – General strikes in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, Brandon, Amherst (NS). The 1919 Vancouver strike in sympathy with Winnipeg is the longest general strike in Canadian history.
1946 (United States) Steel Strike of 1946 occurred. [41] 1 April 1946 (United States) A strike by 400,000 mine workers in the U.S. began. U.S. troops seized railroads and coal mines the following month. [41] 4 October 1946 (United States) The U.S. Navy seized oil refineries in order to break a 20-state post-war strike. 1947 (United States)
Labor actions have long been a part of U.S. history, continuing to this day with strikes by the UAW and Hollywood actors and writers. American History: 28 Worker Strikes That Were Incredibly Memorable
New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 nationwide 400,000 [4] 1949 US coal strike: 1949 nationwide 400,000 1946 UMW mine strike: 1946 nationwide 400,000 [8] [9] [10] 1935 US Bituminous Coal Strike: 1935 nationwide 394,000 1919 UMW Coal ...
1917–1919 Brazil strike movement; 1918–1919 United Kingdom police strikes; 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot; 1919 General Steel Strike; 1919 New York City Harbor strike