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Thursday Jun 30, 2016
June 30 The Making of a Strikebreaker
Thursday Jun 30, 2016
Thursday Jun 30, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1885. That was the day that streetcar workers went out on strike. The West Division Street Railway Company had reduced the number of trips it made each day. The workers asked for a wage increase to make up for the loss in earnings. In response, management fired fifteen union leaders.
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