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Title: A history of the American nation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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very hand.Some years passed before public sentiment strongly demandedits enforcement. While in the years of industrial combination and growth,great factories and railway systems were coming into being, labor, too, was beginning to organize. Strife be- Stnkes. • ^ , . tween labor and capital entered upon dangerousground. There was in the olden time little chance for seriousdifferences, but every cause adding to the concentration of in-dustry also multiplied the numbers of workingmen and broughtthousands of them together, dependent for their wages and theircomfort on the factory owners. The new industrial systembrought in danger of class division and the absence of sym- ^ See Constitution, Art. I. Sec S. § 3. 490 HISTORY OF THE A)\IERICAN NATION pa thy and of fellow feeling between employer and employed.^In 1S77 the tirst great strike occurred. The commencementof the trouble was on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, but itquickly spread to all the lines east of the IVIississippi. The
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The Railway Strike of 1877 Rioters stopping a train on the Erie R.R. From a contemporaryillustration in Lcslie^s Weekly Strikers took forcible possession of the tracks at the principaljunctions and prevented the forwarding of goods or the dis-patching of passenger trains. The whole internal commerceof the country was thrown into confusion. Fights betweenmobs and the pohce authorities took place, and the militia wascalled out to suppress rioting. When state troops failed tosuppress violence, the Federal army was called in for the pur-pose. The most serious disorder was in Pittsburg, where angry ^ Xaturally this was not all new. There were troubles before the CivilWar and movements for labor organization. It was. however, the trans-formation of the later years, the coming of the time when workmen weregathered in thousands, when the little shop that had made things began togo, that the new relationship and the new social system showed themselvesstronglv. MODERN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA—1859-

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