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The Molly Maguires was a secret society of Irish Catholic Immigrant Coal Miners who were active between 1861-1875, and were accused of a series of murders. They become active, especially in Pennsylvania and West Virgina, due to the potato famine in Ireland and discrimination in America. They were accused and prosecuted for crimes including murder and arson. They were eventually taken down by the Pinkertons and 20 of them were sentenced to death, with the last member being executed in 1878.

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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032231/1877-06-23/ed-1/seq-3/?date1=06%2F21%2F1877&index=1&date2=06%2F24%2F1877&searchType=advanced&proxdistance=5&state=Pennsylvania&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Molly+Maguire&andtext=&dateFilterType=range#words=Molly%2BMaguire

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was due because Baltimore & Ohio railroad workers wages were cut multiple times in a year. Workers began to prevent trains from moving. They threw objects at the militias and they shot the workers. Eventually, the president sent troops to end the strike and eventually the strike ended. This inspired even more people to join labor unions

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The Homestead strike took place starting June 30th, 1892. It was a lockout organized by Carnegie Steel plant owner, Henry Clay Frick, after the worker’s previous 3 year contracts were over. His goal was to break the union by stepping up their production requirements and cutting their wages, but when the workers refused, he kept them locked out. Pinkertons were brought in to protect the temporary laborers,  leading to a battle between the Pinkerton guards and the striking workers. Ten strikers and three Pinkertons were killed.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/pst_eisenhower_ver01/data/sn84024546/0023728222A/1892112101/0277.pdf
http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnbaron11.html

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The Pullman Palace Car Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott in Chicago, Illinois from May to July 1894. It was to protest the monopoly by the Pullman Company in its company town, Pullman, Illinois, where workers received unfair wages and 16-hour workdays (their wages were cut by 25% after the Panic of 1893). The strike was called off by the president of the American Railway Union, Eugene Debs, after President Cleveland sent federal troops to the town who killed up to 30 protestors. The strike was ultimately ineffective due to it becoming unpopular for disrupting railroad traffic, and Debs was later arrested for impacting US Postal Services.

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A letter written by railroad strikers to the President of the United States. To inform of the labor troubles in Chicago.

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On May 3, 1886 at the McCormick Reaper Works factory in Chicago, peaceful union protests were crushed by police brutality, resulting in the death of 6 individuals. The next day in Haymarket Square, a public rally was held in protest of the act. This ensued more violence and ended with a bomb being thrown. The identity of the individual who threw the bomb remains unknown although 7 men were sentenced to death for conspiracy.

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POV-Dyer D. Lum, close confidant of the strikers, states how the 8 men convicted were victims of an “inquisition to weed out and destroy labor activism”