general strike

Examples of general strike in the following topics:

• The Great Steel Strike

  • The strike began in September 1919, and collapsed in January 1920.
  • In 1892, the AA had lost a bitter strike, called the Homestead Strike, which had culminated with a gun battle that left 12 dead and dozens wounded.
  • The National Committee debated the strike issue, and agreed to begin a general steelworker strike in September 1919 .
  • Public opinion quickly turned against the striking workers .
  • Mass meetings were prohibited in most strike-stricken areas.

• The Railroad Strikes

  • Hayes sent in federal troops to end the strikes.
  • This strike was the first general strike in the United States.
  • These troops suppressed strike after strike, until at last, approximately 45 days after it had started, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was over.
  • The railroads succeeded in having Richard Olney, general counsel for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
  • The strike was broken up by U.S. marshals and 12,000 U.S.

• The Pullman Strike

  • The Pullman Strike began in 1894 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to wage cuts.
  • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.
  • The railroads succeeded in having Richard Olney, general counsel for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
  • Paul Railway, appointed as a special federal attorney responsible for dealing with the strike.
  • During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.

• Peacetime Economy

  • The postwar transition to a peacetime economy saw strikes and a recession, but the economy fared much better than expected.
  • In this polarized environment, there was a wave of destabilizing strikes in major industries, and Truman's response to them was generally seen as ineffective.
  • When the railway workers turned down a proposed settlement, Truman seized control of the railways and threatened to draft striking workers into the armed forces.
  • While delivering a speech before Congress requesting authority for this plan, Truman received word that the strike had been settled on his terms.
  • Generally speaking, the period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of American capitalism. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I.

• The Balkans

  • The violent outbreaks in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, and Kosovo ended with NATO air strikes led by the Clinton administration.
  • Wishing to impose the Rambouillet Agreement, Clinton, who strongly supported the Albanians, threatened the Yugoslav administration with military strikes.
  • The strikes were not limited to military installations—civilian targets included factories, oil refineries, television stations, and various infrastructures.
  • This war was not approved by the UN administration, General Assembly, or Security Council; it was strongly opposed by Russia and China.
  • NATO air strikes devastated Yugoslavia.

• The Coal Strike of 1902

  • The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania .
  • Striking miners demanded higher wages, shorter workdays, and union recognition.
  • Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution.
  • The anthracite strike ended, after 163 days, on October 23, 1902.
  • Organized labor celebrated the outcome as a victory for the UMWA and American Federation of Labor unions generally.

• The Gastonia Strike of 1929

  • The Loray Mill Strike of 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina was one of the most notable strikes in the labor history of the United States.
  • The strike escalated throughout the month.
  • When news of the mistrial was released, a general wave of terror ran through the countryside.
  • The strike collapsed shortly after Wiggins' murder.
  • In the end, the strike was not a success; during the same time period there was a series of other textile strikes throughout the South.

• The Labor Wars

  • Strikes occurred over the years, and some were successful.
  • The railroads were able to get Edwin Walker, general counsel for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
  • During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.
  • An estimated $340,000 worth of property damage occurred during the strike.
  • 1894 strike by the American Railway Union.

• Depression Politics

  • In the spring, a major coal strike damaged the economy of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
  • Immediately after the coal strike concluded, Eugene V.
  • Debs led a nationwide railroad strike, called the Pullman Strike.
  • The Populist Party ran candidates in the South and Midwest, but generally lost ground, outside Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas where state-level fusion with the Republicans was successful despite Populist and Republican antagonism at the national level.
  • During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.

• Mining on the Comstock Lode

  • The Comstock Lode is notable not just for the immense fortunes it generated and the large role those fortunes had in the growth of Nevada and San Francisco, but also for the advances in mining technology that it spurred.
  • The miners who discovered the mines and the investors who bought their claims did not know the size of the strike.
  • Most of them assumed they had made a small to modest strike like nearly all other gold strikes.
  • All of them knew they did not have the money or expertise to investigate the strike thoroughly.
  • The size of the strike and its potential value would take many years of extensive work, thousands of miners, and the investments of millions of dollars—which none of them had.