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Great Railroad Strike of 1922

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shut down some railroads completely, but the strike eventually died out, as many shopmen made deals with the railroads on the local level. The often-unpalatable concessions, coupled with memories of the violence and tension during the strike, soured relations between the railroads and the shopmen for
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rights. Seniority was important to railroad shop workers in the process of promotion to skilled status as positions became available and in the avoidance of layoffs during slack times, with employees with the least seniority laid off first. The strategy of stripping strikers of their seniority spread
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In 1922 the Railroad Labor Board approved yet another cut in wages, this time a cut of 7 cents an hour targeted at railway repair and maintenance workers, representing a loss of an average of 12% for these workers. The overall economy had subsequently improved from its condition in the previous year,
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Some strikers did not hesitate to sabotage trains and tracks when the opportunity arose. In one case a train was switched onto side tracks and the cars set upon by a mob, with rocks and metal parts thrown through glass windows. Sections of track were occasionally disrupted with explosives. Vigilante
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Strike ballots were sent out to the members of all railway unions over the 1922 wage cuts, but when the votes were counted the members of the "Big Four" brotherhoods broke ranks over the question of a work stoppage. Seven unions representing the railroad shopmen and maintenance of way workers voted
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across the American economy. Price levels began to turn in the other direction in the first years of the 1920s as increased wartime demands upon production were regularized and labor supply was expanded with the reintegration of millions of former soldiers into the employment market. In response to
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The Railroad Labor Board attempted to mediate an end to the dispute, bringing together union and railroad representatives on July 14 in a joint conference. While the railroad officials pledged to end the subcontracting of work to non-union shops, no retreat was to be made on the issue of restoring
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The opportunity for a mediated solution to the strike was brief. On July 11, 1922, President Harding issued a proclamation that attempted to split the difference between the two sides in the conflict, recognizing the merit of the workers' grievances and promising not to destroy organized labor but
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Harding proposed a settlement on July 28 that would have granted little to the labor unions, but the railroad companies still rejected the compromise, despite interest from the desperate workers. Daugherty, who opposed the unions, pushed for national action against the strike, and on September 1,
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movement, which was fostered by large employers throughout the American economy, with an increasing percentage of shop work contracted out by the railway companies to non-union subcontractors. During the war, the various railway shop crafts (machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians,
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and repair shops. Private guards and law enforcement authorities were quick to remove strikers from private property, however, and with the strikebreakers frequently domiciled on the job site, new and more-violent tactics were used, including the issuance of physical threats, the vandalism of
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Women came to the aid of striking men by both provisioning those who walked picket lines and walking the lines themselves. Women were also instrumental in some places in pressuring strikers to appear on the picket line and in dissuading strikebreakers from continuing to cross strike lines. In
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workers membership in their ranks on strictly racial grounds; the excluded workers had no economic or moral incentive to honor the work stoppage. Thousands of black railway workers crossed picket lines and helped to undermine strike efforts, but that was not universal; in places like
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was called out, on a state-by-state basis, by various state governors. Troops bolstered armed company guards in their work protecting railroad property and aiding in the defense and transportation of strikebreakers, thereby working to undermine the strike effort.
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The targeted 1922 cut did not affect the members of the "Big Four" railway brotherhoods, however, and these unions were not affected as were the shop workers. Promises were made by the Railroad Labor Board to the so-called "Big Four" (the
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Office for the recruiting of strikebreakers in the 1922 Shopmen's Strike. Strikebreakers were frequently housed and fed on-site to avoid having to cross picket lines, leading to promises of "Free Board – Room" in the painted
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Attempts by state and federal authorities to impose order proved to be an accelerant to the physical nature of the conflict. In the initial phase of the conflict, strikers attempted to set up pickets to close down railroad
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sheet-metal workers, and laborers) had fully obtained the right to unionize, and they sought to maintain this economic clout. Deep tension developed between employers and railway workers across the country. Attempts by the
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and the extension of free goods and discounts to strikers. Picnics were held in support of strikers and in some places, railway guards were disarmed by local sheriffs who were seeking to avert the chance of violence.
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quite some time. The outcome of the strike was a major blow to the Harding administration who were criticzed for their inability to resolve the situation and would be a major factor to the Republicans losing the
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seniority to striking workers, and the impasse remained unsettled. Following the failure of this conference, the Railroad Labor Board declared that its efforts to resolve the stoppage had reached an end.
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to go on strike, however, and the date July 1, 1922, was set for the launch of a coordinated work stoppage. On that day some 400,000 railway workers walked off the job, including nearly 100,000 in the
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also recognizing the decision of the Railroad Labor Board that strikebreakers were to be regarded as permanent employees, with "the same indisputable right to work as others have to decline work."
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Bitter labor discord followed. In some towns, local merchants and authorities gave moral and actual help to the strikers, including refusal to sell groceries to strikebreakers and other commercial
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At least ten strikers or family members were killed during the work stoppage. The collective action of some 400,000 workers in the summer of 1922 was the largest railroad strike since the
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Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty sought an aggressive approach to end the 1922 Railroad Strike and made use of legal injunctions and US Marshals on the railway companies' behalf.
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the changing economic conditions, railway companies obtained approval from the Railroad Labor Board in 1921 for deep reductions in wage rates for workers across the industry.
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The railroads took advantage of the strike to undermine the bargaining position of the workers in their maintenance facilities. On July 3, head of the Railroad Labor Board
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One of the tens of thousands of private guards hired by railroad companies to protect company assets and guard strikebreakers during the 1922 Railway Shopmen's Strike.
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who actually operated the trains unaffected by the strike, the railroad companies immediately began to replace the skilled and semi-skilled maintenance workers with
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rapidly across the country and the issue of retaining seniority, and its associated benefits thereafter became one of the paramount issues of the strike.
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of the Railroad Labor Board, which approved the wage cut for train maintenance workers that prompted the 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike.
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This interval of labor peace proved short-lived, however, following the return of control of the rail system to private hands by the
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For their part, armed company guards fired upon striking workers with a number of deaths resulting, including incidents in
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strikebreakers' homes, the destruction of railroad property, and instances of physical violence against strikebreakers.
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Railroad Workers' Section, Trade Union Educational League (August 1922). "Railroad Workers Stand Together".
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Wolf, H.D. (January 1927). "Criticisms of the Railroad Labor Board and an Evaluation of Its Work".
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however, and railway workers were particularly aggrieved by the new round of wage reductions.
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Railway shopmen walked off the job on July 1, 1922 launching a nationwide railway strike.
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Davis, Colin J. (Fall 1992). "Bitter Conflict: The 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike".
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was not used to defend railroad company interests in the 1922 Shopmen's Strike, the
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in December 1921 to arrive at an amicable remedy to the conflict were unsuccessful.
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Presidential Proclamation 1419, December 26, 1917, under authority of the
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Opposing Daugherty in the inner circle of the Harding administration were
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Bloomington and Normal Trades and Labor Assembly, www.bntrades.org/
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There was widespread opposition to the injunction, and a number of
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Railway workers were divided not only by craft, however, but also
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of 1894 and the biggest American strike of any kind since the
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issued a sweeping injunction against striking, assembling,
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Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike
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Rail transportation labor disputes in the United States
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Additionally, the railway industry was affected by the
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List of federal judges appointed by Warren G. Harding
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Great Railroad Strike
Camp Dump
Great Southwest
Burlington
Buffalo switchmen
New Orleans waterfront
Pullman Strike
Chicago teamsters
New Orleans Levee
Illinois Central shopmen
West Coast waterfront
NYC Harbor Strike
Seattle waterfront
Portland waterfront
Railway shopmen
West Coast waterfront
Minneapolis teamsters
NYC teamsters truckers
Vancouver waterfront
Gulf Coast maritime
NYC tugboat
USPS
Longshoremen
Patco (air traffic controllers)
SEPTA Regional Rail
Pan Am

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