Chicago coal gleaners. Great Railroad Strike 1877.

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Great Railroad Strike 1877

“Hurray for Anarchy!!”

"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today,"

Homestead, Carnegie Steel

Henry Clay Frick

“I am going to fight…If it takes all summer and all winter, and all next summer and all next winter… I will fight this to the bitter end. I will never recognize the union, never, never.”

Homestead Striker behind steel plate barricade

Remington’s pro-gov sketch

Shift Change Pullman Factory

American Railroad Union supports Pullman Strike

• President Cleveland sends troops to end the Pullman Strike• "If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a

postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. President Grover Cleveland, 1894

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