Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!tektronix!reed!ellen From: ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Are Unions made in Heaven? Message-ID: <1001@reed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:58:26 EST Article-I.D.: reed.1001 Posted: Tue Feb 26 15:58:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:35:52 EST References: <509@decwrl.UUCP> <8260@watarts.UUCP> Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 14 > If you look back in the history of American unions, > look to the railroad worker strike(the year fails me). > Cops were used to attack the strikers. I am not sure if Dave Brown is referring to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Knights of Labor strike agains the SW line (won), the second SW strike (lost) or the Pullman strike of 1894; but in at least one case not only were cops sent in, but the president sent in federal troops to break the strike, in direct violation of various and sundry laws....(cf. Salvatore's biography of Eugene Debs). -Ellen