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Great Southwest Railroad Strike
Knights of Labor, 200,000 strikers, cause was unsafe conditions unfair hours and pay, failed employer hired non-union workers -
Pullman Strike
American Railway Union (ARU), 250,000 strikers, caused by 12-hour work days and wage cuts, strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops, -
Great Anthracite Coal Strike
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 147,000 strikers, threatened to create an energy crisis, seeking better wages and conditions, slight success (initial demands were for a 20% wage increase, they wound up with a 10% raise) -
Steel Strike of 1919
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 350,000 strikers, against poor working conditions long hours low wages and corporate harassment regarding union involvement, Company owners brought public concerns over communism and immigration as a way of turning public sentiment against the unions, failure and ensured an absence of union organization in the steel industry for the next 15 years -
Railroad Shop Workers Strike of 1922
conglomeration of unions, 400,000 strikers, the railroad labor board announced that wages for railroad shop workers would be cut by 7 cents, U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty persuaded a federal judge to ban all strike-related activities-unions settled for a 5 cent pay cut