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From: ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Are Unions made in Heaven?
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:58:26 EST
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>     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