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Usage examples of strikes.

Several rimes in those strikes, women armed with sticks and stones broke through the wooden gates of a textile mill and stopped the looms.

That year and the next, there were 140 strikes in the eastern part of the United States.

Paterson, New Jersey, the first of a series of mill strikes was started by children.

In a week, strikes had begun in all the shoe towns of New England, with Mechanics Associations in twenty-five towns and twenty thousand shoe-workers on strike.

In die midst of the railroad strikes, diat summer of 1877, it called a rally.

Robert Bruce believes the strikes taught many people of the hardships of others, and that they led to congressional railroad regulation.

When the latter are well-educated and the former are disposed to deal justly, controversies and strikes can never occur, nor can the minds of the masses be prejudiced by demagogues and controlled by temporary and factious considerations.

On May 1, the American Federation of Labor, now five years old, called for nationwide strikes wherever the eight-hour day was refused.

Haymarket, class conflict and violence continued, with strikes, lockouts, blacklisting, the use of Pinkerton detectives and police to break strikes with force, and courts to break them by law.

From 1881 to 1885, strikes had averaged about 500 each year, involving perhaps 150,000 workers each year.

Depression lasted for years and brought a wave of strikes throughout the country.

But only to certain white men, because it was clear by 1896 that the state stood ready to crush labor strikes, by the law if possible, by force if necessary.

In all the previous strikes the Negro was used against die white man but that condition is now past and both races are standing together for their common interests.

The strikes were beaten down by force, and the economy was doing just well enough for just enough people to prevent mass rebellion.

The wave of strikes in 1936, 1937, 1938, made the need even more pressing.