While beginning relatively peacefully police and strikers began to clash. At planters requests the state sent the militia to protect strikebreakers from ambush attacks by strikers and work resumed on some plantations.
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Beginning with the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 through the Great Upheaval of 1886 that culminated in the slaughter at Haymarket Square then through the Homestead Strike 1892 Pullman Strike 1894 and more the largest confrontations often involved violence and the intervention by state or federal governments to repress the strikes.
. B Resulted in 60 workers being killed by federal troops. Black workers and their families were evicted from plantations in Lafourche. Attending the strike were a rising movement of armed anarchists formed as a result of the police violence of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
C Was the result of desperate workers joining Eugene Debss railway union. D All of the above. The Pullman Strike of 1894 A Was one of the bloodiest labor conflicts in US.
The strike was the largest strike in the history of the industry and it was also the first strike to be conducted by a formal labor organization the Knights of Labor. As strikers rallied against the McCormick plant a team of political anarchists who were not Knights tried to piggyback support among striking Knights workers.
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