On this day in 1886, the Great Southwest Railroad Strike began, involving more than 200,000 workers throughout the Southwestern United States.

The strike began when an agreement between the Knights of Labor and Union Pacific to give notice and investigate all firings was violated where a Knight named Charles A. Hall in Marshall, Texas was fired for attending a union meeting on company time. In response, te District Assembly #101 of the Knights called a strike.

Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, paralyzing railway lines with both inaction and sabotage.

At least nine people were killed in conflicts between police and crowds of striking workers. On April 9th in East St. Louis, eight deputies guarding a freight train shot into a crowd of strikers, killing six bystanders. The crowd responsed by setting the rail yards on fire.

After two months of protest, the strike was called off on May 4th without the workers winning their demands. The failure of the strike led directly to the collapse of the Knights of Labor and the rise of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

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    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      sucks, eh?

      Nothing like getting into an argument with a rich right-wing lady about Mao and the hundred billion jillion dead by communism while at a fancy event where the girl literally grew up going to the venue her mom works for, so security starts eyeing you up as the argument progresses.

      Or dating a girl and then finding out her parents were in the French military in Algeria, helped plot the coup attempts against de gaulle, and now live in FN strongholds in the mountains... and all this comes out when she says 'hitler was a communist, communism is bad'.

      Or starting to see a girl and she calls your ethnic group 'a bunch of lazy good for nothings, not including you', and when you don't answer she tries to guilt you into going along with her by sending amazing nudes your way like 30 minutes later.