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Oxana [17]
3 years ago
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What was the significance of the great railroad strike of 1877?

History
2 answers:
TEA [102]3 years ago
7 0

The answer is: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first major strike in an industry that propelled America's industrial revolution. It was the first national strike.

The great railroad strike was done mostly by employees of railroad companies who treated their employees unfairly.

At that time, the railroad companies keep cutting the wages of their workers and icnreasing their working hours to increase the company's profit. The strike got more attention that the companies tought it would.

In the end, the companies that became the target of the strike cave in and improve the workers' salary with additional medical benefit.

Stels [109]3 years ago
3 0
 the strike the great railroad strike of 1877 started July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia in response to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (B&O) cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains to roll until this third wage cut was revoked .
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