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American Socialist (2020)

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The Great Strike

The next day, the strike began. It effectively is a shut down of the railroads from chicago west for some days and really paralyzed the american economy. Debs urged the strikers to remain calm and united. The leadership of the a r u was jailed on contempt of court. 30 workers were killed. About half of those workers are thought to have been killed in ch Chicago. Hundreds more were arrested, and skirmishers arrupted cross the nation. Many them were left jobless. Some say the strike pushed grover cleveland to create a holiday in honor of workers called labor day.

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