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Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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)athizers, following this fearful fancywhich has pursued the same class from time immemorial,that they can only hold their own against their employersby periodical anarchy and riot, repeated the violence andtragedy which forever bind them in the chains of their ownignorant foiging. They presented, as they liave countlesstimes presented, the pitiable picture of men blind with furyand rage of their own nursing, standing before their ownwork and taking the bitterly-needed bread from the mouthsof their fellows and their own families. Fjom over-production, and a hundred other causes whichhave affected all interests, they were certainly having hardtimes in the mines; but the idleness, the destruction, thewanton ))illage, the stoppage of investments from fear ofthe results of all enterprise, w^ere the consequences of theirown brutal work. Wiiile we may pity them, we cannot butcondenni them with a touch of horror and dismay. They
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840 THE STRIKE AT nilLADELPHIA. will not work tlieinselvcs ; they wnll not permit others towork. They kill and plunder and bntcher like demons,destroy the very interests which place bread into theirmonths ; and then, becanse they have recklessly crippledtheir employers, strike and kill and burn again. And thusthese rounds of terror have gone on and on, until whatshould be the fairest garden-spot of the great Common-w^ealth of Pennsylvania is swiftly becoming such a pest-hole of anarchy and murder that it would almost seem thatthe time is not far distant when it will become necessaryto chase these demons, like foxes, from the fair mountainswith fire and sword. CII APTJSR XKIX. THE STKIKE AT PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND UPON TUEElilE KAIL ROAD. It may be fairly stated that the great strikes of 77brought comparatively no violence to either Philadelphia orIs^ew York, the largest two cities of the country. Therewas iiatnrally gieat excitement in both places, but no activedemonstrations by t

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