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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 ...
Great Railroad Strike: 1877 nationwide +100,000 1902 Anthracite coal strike: 1902 Pennsylvania: 100,000's [44]: 82 1918-20 New York City rent strikes: 1918-20 New York City: 100,000 [12] 1947 Iowa one-day general strike: 1947 Iowa: 100,000 [45] 1872 New York City Eight Hour Day Strike: 1872 New York City: 100,000 [46] 1973 Chicago construction ...
Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. A headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch read "Traffic Throttled: The Gould System at the Mercy of the Knights of Labor." [2] At the time of the strike, Gould held some 12 percent of all railroad track in the U.S.
As with a majority of modern Kansas City’s infrastructure, the post-World War II automobile boom drove the decision to build a new bridge across the Missouri River.
1962 New York City newspaper strike; 1963 941,000 1964 1,640,000 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1965 1,550,000 1966 1,960,000 1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US truckers strike; November 1967 General Motors strike; 1967 ...
Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company: SLSF: 1887 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad: KCS: 1893 1900 Kansas City Southern Railway: Kansas City and Southern Railway: MP: 1882 1882 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1883 ...
Kansas City and Santa Fe Railroad: ATSF: 1879 1879 Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad: Kansas City and Santa Fe Railroad and Telegraph Company: ATSF: 1868 1879 Kansas City and Santa Fe Railroad: Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad: SLSF: 1884 1897 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Kansas City and Southwestern Railway: MP: 1884 1909
1914 Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad/Kansas City Southern Railway collision, Tipton Ford, Missouri; 43 killed plus 38 injured. Possibly Missouri's deadliest rail disaster to date [92] [93] 1916 Summer Street Bridge disaster, Boston, Massachusetts; 46 killed. Deadliest disaster in Boston's history up to that point and still remains the city ...