Examples of Reading Railroad in the following topics:
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- In the 1870s, the Reading Railroad blamed the deals of two dozen mine foremen and administrators on a secret society of Irishmen called the "Molly Maguires. " Although the Reading Railroad hired a Pinkerton undercover detective to investigate, it is highly probable that most of the men accused and executed for being Molly Maguires were innocent.
- By the 1870s, powerful financial syndicates controlled the railroads and the coalfields.
- Frequently unable to read safety instructions, the immigrant workers faced hazardous conditions; injury and death frequently resulted from the mine companies' violations of safety precautions.
- Gowen, the president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad as well as the Coal and Iron Company, had built a combination of his own, bringing all of the mine operators into an employers' association known as the Anthracite Board of Trade.
- In addition to the railroad, Gowen owned two-thirds of the coal mines in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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- Pennsylvania's third major industrial city at the time, Reading, was also hit by the fury.
- This city was home of the engine works and shops of its namesake Reading Railroad, against which engineers had already been on strike since April 1877.
- Sixteen citizens were shot by state militia in the Reading Railroad Massacre.
- The militia responsible for the shootings was mobilized by Reading Railroad management, not by local public officials.
- The headline of the Chicago Times read, "Terrors Reign, The Streets of Chicago Given Over to Howling Mobs of Thieves and Cutthroats."
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- The Knights grew slowly until the organization succeeded in facing down the great railroad baron Jay Gould in an 1885 strike.
- For instance, the AFL sanctioned the maintenance of segregated locals within its affiliates—particularly in the construction and railroad industries—a practice that often excluded black workers altogether from union membership and thus from employment in organized industries.
- In the 1870s, the Reading Railroad blamed the deals of two dozen mine foremen and administrators on a secret society of Irishmen called the "Molly Maguires."
- Although the Reading Railroad hired a Pinkerton undercover detective to investigate, it is highly probable that most of the men accused and executed for being Molly Maguires were innocent.
- In the Great Railroad Strike in 1877, railroad workers across the nation went on strike in response to a 10 percent pay cut.
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- The first great business combinations were the railroads.
- In 1886, he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading and, in 1888, the Chesapeake & Ohio.
- He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J.
- In time, they persuaded many state legislatures to pass laws regulating railroads.
- In the meantime, the railroads had discovered that their pools lacked enforcement power.
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- He wrested control of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad from Jay Gould and Jim Fisk in 1869.
- He raised large sums in Europe, but instead of only handling the funds, he helped the railroads reorganize and achieve greater efficiencies.
- In 1885, he reorganized the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, leasing it to the New York Central.
- In 1886, he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading, and in 1888 the Chesapeake & Ohio.
- He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J.
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- One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped
via the "Railroad."
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escape network of the Underground Railroad was not literally underground or a railroad.
- It came
to be referred to as a "railroad" due to the use of rail terminology
in the code used by its participants.
- Additionally,
because many freedom seekers could
not read, visual and audible clues such as patterns in quilts, song lyrics, and
star positions provided directional cues along the way.
- A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free more than 70 people.
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- In the years between 1889 and 1920, railroad use in the U.S. expanded six-fold.
- With this expansion, the dangers to the railroad worker increased.
- Congress passed FELA in response to the high number of railroad deaths in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
- African American boy selling The Washington Daily News - sign on his hat reads, "Have you read The News?
- One cent" - headline reads "Millionaire tax rends G.O.P."
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- Their program also called for the regulation—if not the outright nationalization—of the railroads; currency inflation to provide debt relief; the lowering of the tariff; and the establishment of government-owned storehouses and low-interest lending facilities.
- The pragmatic portion of the Populist platform focused on issues of land, railroads, and money, including the unlimited coinage of silver.
- Railroad bonds, the most important financial instrument of the time, were payable in gold.
- If fares and freight rates were set in half-price silver dollars, railroads would go bankrupt in weeks, putting hundreds of thousands of men out of work and destroying the industrial economy.
- A man holding a baby and a woman carrying a basket of food read "Vote for Free Silver" posters outside the Democratic Campaign Headquarters.
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- In a declaration of principles in 1874, the Grangers declared that they were not enemies of the railroads, and that they were not advocates of communism or agrarianism.
- the establishment of traveling and local rural libraries, reading courses, and lyceums
- This is an example of boosterism, the cover of a promotional booklet published in 1907 by the Rock Island Railroad.
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- Many Irish went to the emerging textile-mill towns of the Northeast; some also migrated to the interior of America to work on large-scale infrastructure projects such as canals and railroads.
- The Irish provided a ready source of unskilled labor needed to lay railroad tracks and dig canals.
- After 1860, many Irish sang songs about "NINA signs" reading, "Help wanted—no Irish need apply."