Examples of Reading Railroad Massacre in the following topics:
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- Pennsylvania's third major industrial city at the time, Reading, was also hit by the fury.
- This city was home of the engine works and shops of its namesake Reading Railroad, against which engineers had already been on strike since April 1877.
- Sixteen citizens were shot by state militia in the Reading Railroad Massacre.
- Preludes to the massacre include the following: fresh work stoppage of all classes of the railroad's local workforce, mass marches, the blockage of rail traffic, train-yard arson, and the burning down of the bridge providing this railroad's only link to the West (this prevented local militia from being mustered to Harrisburg or Pittsburgh).
- The militia responsible for the shootings was mobilized by Reading Railroad management, not by local public officials.
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- Once in power, they typically cut government spending, shortened legislative sessions, lowered politicians' salaries, scaled back public aid to railroads and corporations, and reduced support for the new systems of public education and some welfare institutions.
- The disputed 1872 election of a Republican governor in Louisiana led to an outbreak of violence—later known as the "Colfax Massacre"—in which 3 white men died, 120–150 African Americans were killed, and some 50 African Americans were held as prisoners.
- It shows a black man holding a Democrat voting ticket and wearing a badge that reads "Peace."
- Posters around the man read, "The Republican Party is dead in the South," "Old line Whigs are dead," and "The South solid for the democracy."
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- One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped
via the "Railroad."
- The
escape network of the Underground Railroad was not literally underground or a railroad.
- It came
to be referred to as a "railroad" due to the use of rail terminology
in the code used by its participants.
- Additionally,
because many freedom seekers could
not read, visual and audible clues such as patterns in quilts, song lyrics, and
star positions provided directional cues along the way.
- A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free more than 70 people.
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- Their greatest victory was in the Union Pacific Railroad strike in 1884.
- The Wabash Railroad strike in 1885 was also a significant success, as Powderly finally supported what became a successful strike on Jay Gould 's Wabash Line.
- The Knights were also responsible for race riots that resulted in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.
- They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor , which had more conservative reputations.
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- The first great business combinations were the railroads.
- In 1886, he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading and, in 1888, the Chesapeake & Ohio.
- He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J.
- In time, they persuaded many state legislatures to pass laws regulating railroads.
- In the meantime, the railroads had discovered that their pools lacked enforcement power.
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- The AFL sanctioned the maintenance of segregated locals within its affiliates — particularly in the construction and railroad industries — a practice which often excluded black workers altogether from union membership, and thus from employment in organized industries.
- The Knights were also responsible for race riots that resulted in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.
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- The Knights were also responsible for race riots, resulting in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.
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- He wrested control of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad from Jay Gould and Jim Fisk in 1869.
- He raised large sums in Europe, but instead of only handling the funds, he helped the railroads reorganize and achieve greater efficiencies.
- In 1885, he reorganized the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, leasing it to the New York Central.
- In 1886, he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading, and in 1888 the Chesapeake & Ohio.
- He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J.
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- In the years between 1889 and 1920, railroad use in the U.S. expanded six-fold.
- With this expansion, the dangers to the railroad worker increased.
- Congress passed FELA in response to the high number of railroad deaths in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
- African American boy selling The Washington Daily News - sign on his hat reads, "Have you read The News?
- One cent" - headline reads "Millionaire tax rends G.O.P."
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- In the 1870s, the Reading Railroad blamed the deals of two dozen mine foremen and administrators on a secret society of Irishmen called the "Molly Maguires. " Although the Reading Railroad hired a Pinkerton undercover detective to investigate, it is highly probable that most of the men accused and executed for being Molly Maguires were innocent.
- By the 1870s, powerful financial syndicates controlled the railroads and the coalfields.
- Frequently unable to read safety instructions, the immigrant workers faced hazardous conditions; injury and death frequently resulted from the mine companies' violations of safety precautions.
- Gowen, the president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad as well as the Coal and Iron Company, had built a combination of his own, bringing all of the mine operators into an employers' association known as the Anthracite Board of Trade.
- In addition to the railroad, Gowen owned two-thirds of the coal mines in southeastern Pennsylvania.