Railroad Strike Dbq
The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year.
This strike had a big impact because the striking workers wouldn’t allow trains, mainly freight trains to roll. They had one term to make this dilemma get dropped; drop the third wage cut.
The events that lead up to the strike were simple, they had cut the pay outs three times, so no one's gonna be happy. Let’s say your boss comes up to you and goes hey, we’re having to cut pay down by 10 percent on all checks. Yeah, that sucks, but imagine the next week he comes up to you, yeah sorry, we’re gonna have to take an extra 10 percent on top of the already cut check. That’s a big hit in every check, per 100 …show more content…
There was events such as railroad cars that were not allowed to pass until they removed the strike. Which either forced the person waiting for the
Supplies in the crate to get mad, or not pay them because the supplies aren’t in their possession. Putting the payers at a wage, take away the pay cut, or not get paid because the supplies.
Strikers in Pittsburgh affected aboutl 39 buildings, 104 engines, 46–70 passenger cars, and 1,200–1,383 freight carts. Damage estimates ranged from 5 to 10 million dollars and was never paid back by the strikers, because they thought they were in the right. That set America in debt during and after the strike.
The Great Railroad strike was one of the biggest strikes in history to this date, and was a big fault on the government and the railroad system. Not to mention it was supported by up to 100,000 workers around the US. It was also not peaceful, as up to 50 got killed and almost 500 were affected by this strike, as it didn’t let rail cars through slowing production because they didn’t have the supplies in the
This strike had a big impact because the striking workers wouldn’t allow trains, mainly freight trains to roll. They had one term to make this dilemma get dropped; drop the third wage cut.
The events that lead up to the strike were simple, they had cut the pay outs three times, so no one's gonna be happy. Let’s say your boss comes up to you and goes hey, we’re having to cut pay down by 10 percent on all checks. Yeah, that sucks, but imagine the next week he comes up to you, yeah sorry, we’re gonna have to take an extra 10 percent on top of the already cut check. That’s a big hit in every check, per 100 …show more content…
There was events such as railroad cars that were not allowed to pass until they removed the strike. Which either forced the person waiting for the
Supplies in the crate to get mad, or not pay them because the supplies aren’t in their possession. Putting the payers at a wage, take away the pay cut, or not get paid because the supplies.
Strikers in Pittsburgh affected aboutl 39 buildings, 104 engines, 46–70 passenger cars, and 1,200–1,383 freight carts. Damage estimates ranged from 5 to 10 million dollars and was never paid back by the strikers, because they thought they were in the right. That set America in debt during and after the strike.
The Great Railroad strike was one of the biggest strikes in history to this date, and was a big fault on the government and the railroad system. Not to mention it was supported by up to 100,000 workers around the US. It was also not peaceful, as up to 50 got killed and almost 500 were affected by this strike, as it didn’t let rail cars through slowing production because they didn’t have the supplies in the