The Burlington railroad strike of 1888 was a failed union strike which pitted the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (B of LE), the Brotherhood of Locomotive...
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railroad strike of 1888, against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad The Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912 The Chicago railroad strike of 1877 The 1894...
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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as...
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July...
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Charles Elliott Perkins (category People from Burlington, Iowa)
8, 1907) was an American businessman and president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was so well respected that historian Richard Overton...
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Company, the main railroads, the main labor unions, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott...
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Pacific Junction, Iowa (redirect from History of Pacific Junction, Iowa)
of violence during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, PJ's population peaked during the early 20th century with just over 700 people. Railroad traffic...
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Eugene V. Debs (category Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives)
influence was his involvement in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, a defeat for labor that convinced Debs of "the need to reorganize across craft...
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and...
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Peter M. Arthur (category Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen people)
leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) for many years. He led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888, and...
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