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The First National Rail Strike in American History
Break men at that time had to climb up rail cars turn a hand break wheel and then leap over to the next car in order to bring a train to a stop. Many of them fell were run over severely maimed and this only got worse as numbers were cut back. Only in 1893 was a safety bill enacted which required railways to put in air brakes so this was the kind of crucible you know the the sense of danger of frustration that was already building among rail workers until 1877.
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