What is "strikers"

Usage examples of "strikers".

The long-dreaded conflict between the forces of the strikers and the nonunion men who have taken their places has come at last.

A sheriffs posse tried to arrest some strikers, but it was broken up by four hundred weavers armed with muskets and sticks.

Strikebreakers were brought in, and some workers went back to work, but the strikers did win a twelve-hour day and nine hours on Saturday.

The manufacturers offered higher wages to bring the strikers back into the factories, but without recognizing the unions, so that workers still had to face the employer as individuals.

This led to the killing of three Italians, to trials in which jurors of the community exonerated the strikers, and bitter feelings between Italians and other organized workers.

Baltimore, a crowd of thousands sympathetic to the railroad strikers surrounded the armory of the National Guard, which had been called out by the governor at the request of the B.

Only seven hundred of them were members of the Knights, but all the strikers soon joined.

With mass arrests, violent attacks by sheriffs and deputies, no support from the skilled, better-paid workers of the Railway Brotherhoods, the strikers could not hold out.

That day, in front of the McCormick Harvester Works, where strikers and sympathizers fought scabs, the police fired into a crowd of strikers running from the scene, wounded many of them, and killed four.

Thibodaux, which had become a kind of refugee village where hundreds of strikers, evicted from their plantation shacks, gathered, penniless and ragged, carrying their bed clothing and babies.

Gem mine has surrendered to the strikers, the anus of its employees have been captured, and the employees themselves have been ordered out of the country.

Flushed with the success of these victories the turbulent element among the strikers are preparing to move upon other strongholds of the non-union men.

A committee of strikers took over the town, and the sheriff was unable to raise a posse among local people against them.

Pinkerton guards boarded barges 5 miles down the river from Homestead and moved toward the plant, where ten thousand strikers and sympathizers waited.

The strikers, with no resources left, agreed to return to work, their leaders blacklisted.