The railroad companies called upon the various State authorities for protection in operating their lines, but, as is generally the case, the militia were either in sympathy with the strikers or were afraid of them.
On August 5th, the general committee of strikers officially declared the strike at an end in Chicago, and their action was speedily imitated elsewhere.
The men sent to cope with the strikers were too few, and when Governor Altgeld forwarded troops to the scenes of the outbreaks, they also were too weak, and many of the militia openly showed their sympathy with the mob.
The strikers became violent, destroyed property, and a number of lives were lost.
The strikers stopped all trains in Baltimore and Martinsburg, West Virginia, and defied the authorities.
Growing bolder, the strikerschecked the mails and postal service and resisted deputy marshals.
A force of regular soldiers, while hurrying over the railroad to the scene of the disturbance, was ditched by the strikers and several killed and badly hurt.
It did not remedy matters that a few days later the strike was given up and about half the strikers went back to work; for every one taken on, there was a "scab" who gave up and fled.
The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary--and that was the press.
Some steers had just escaped from the yards, and the strikers had got hold of them, and there would be the chance of a scrap!
The daily press reports of the strike greatly exaggerated the violence of the strikers and almost uniformly neglected to mention acts of violence on the other side.
The strike leaders were finally released [and] the demands of the strikers were granted.
Howsoever passive the strikers may have been in their attitude to the police and the militia, they were probably quite aggressive in their campaign to win recruits to the ranks of the strikers.
According to one who was on the spot, the riots occurred before Ettor's organization was effected, when the strikers gathered about the mills as an organized mob and mill bosses turned streams of water upon them in zero weather.
The strikers at Schenectady made use of syndicalistic tactics which have been strongly advocated in the I.
Although the strikerswere unable to get the aid they needed from the General Organization, the strike seems to have been quite successful.
Industrial Workers of the World has been missing for the last four days and so is $250 which was to be used for the relief of strikers and their families in Duluth, Minn.
In vain did the government plead with the strikers for coal to start troop and wheat ships.
This did not happen once, but continuously, and the strikers .
Over about the deserted shops, away from the mad tumult of the yards, numbers of the strikers stood in gloomy contemplation of the wreck, but taking no further part in the proceedings.
He was coming from the camp of the militia, where he had been called to administer the last Sacraments to a lieutenant, whom the strikers had shot down the night before.
He is a waiter," declared the strikers with one accord, and again they rested suspicious eyes upon Mr. Vivian.
The strikers turned and pointed at the form of Mr. Jones as he distributed a tray of viands with such marvelous rapidity that the effect of the walkout was as yet unnoticed by the aged.
Even when the strikers themselves have no hand in these crimes they are morally liable for the foreknown consequences of their act.
MOLLY--There was a crowd of strikers there, and one of them threw a brick into the car, and it struck my arm at the elbow.
As it is, it might easily mean that British troops would be coercing British strikers at home when they should be fighting Potsdam abroad, thus producing a disastrous and detestable division of popular feeling in the face of the enemy.
The strikers put up an armed resistance, being supported in this by a small body of soldiers.
At first the marines in Petrograd were ordered to disperse the strikers and break the strike, but they refused to obey the order.
The Chief stepped out among the strikers and stood in the glare of the headlights.
He suggested that the strikers should get back at once to work and the negotiations should proceed in the meantime.
It appears he has been employing strikers in some work or other, which some of the brethren considered to be not according to Hoyle.
But the strikers won their demands and conditions were materially improved.
But at this time the ranks of the strikers were unbroken.
Industrial Heretics and the White Terror For a time it seemed as though the strikers would surely be defeated.
At one time an armed mob of business men dragged nearly four hundred strikers from their homes or boarding houses, herded them into waiting boxcars, sealed up the doors and were about to deport them en masse.
So all the good, wise and noisy men of the nation were induced by diverse means to cry out against the strikers and their union.
When the wives of the strikers with babies in their arms, took the places of their imprisoned husbands, the fire hose was turned on them with great force, in many instances knocking them to the ground.
The night that followed was so quiet that Harvey believed the strikers had been awed by his threat to appeal to the law and by the determined front of the new men.
He vowed over again that not one of the strikers should do another day's work for him, even if he begged for it on his knees and he was starving.
The employers are, of course, informed by the detectives that the outrages have been committed by the strikers, and the detectives have seen to it that the employers are prepared to believe that the strikers are capable of anything.
They were imprisoned by the strikers in a rink, and in the evening they were sent out of town by rail.
In some cases the strikers lent their support to the republicans; in other cases they followed the ideas of Bakounin, and openly declared they had no concern for the republic.
Then a shot was fired from the boat and one of the strikers fell to the ground mortally wounded.
The strikers realized that violence was fatal to their cause, and the deputy marshals knew that violence meant victory for the railroads.
Supposing that the strikers were masters of the streets and should seize the factories, would not the factories still remain private property?
They sought to intimidate the strikersby assuming a threatening attitude and aiming the muzzles of their shining revolvers at them.
Fortunately, however, they were not able to induce the actual strikers to participate in their assaults upon railroad property, and every newspaper man testified that the riots were, in the main, the work of the vicious elements of Chicago.
At all events, in this particular instance, it was not pretended either that the strikers had invaded property or person, or that the police or militia in Albany had betrayed reluctance or inability to cope with the situation.
It is in evidence, and uncontradicted," reports the Commission, "that no violence or destruction of property by strikers or sympathizers took place at Pullman.
Nearly every witness before the Commission testified that the strikers again and again gave the police valuable assistance in protecting the property of the railroads.
In one of the greatest of our strikes, that involving the steel industry, over two thousand armed detectives were employed supposedly to protect property, while several hundred more were scattered in the ranks of strikers as workmen.
On Tuesday the places of the four thousand strikers had been so nearly filled that but three hundred vacancies were reported.
The agitation was kept up, and a mass-meeting was held by the strikers at No.
It might be an attempt on the part of the strikers to obtain some advantage, which might occasion great annoyance or damage to the employers.
In order to inflame the strikersand keep them together they were frequently regaled by such poisonous talk as the following: "In a week the men will begin to get uneasy.
In one way or another the strikersprevent others from exercising that right to work and to employ, or attempt to do so, thus assuming for themselves superior rights and despotic powers.
Many of those who went to work were put under police protection in order to keep the strikersfrom committing depredations.
In order to exhibit the venomous spirit of some of the strikers an effort was made by the union Hodcarriers and Laborers to make the life of non-union Laborers a burden.
The strikers threatened to bring into the city building material from Michigan, thinking by such a proceeding they could force the bosses to give in.
During the same year the Chicago union was assessed $4,600 to assist the strikers in Pittsburgh, but the assessment was never paid.
In the last strike the strikers were disappointed.
The leaders of the strikers announced that under no conditions would the union accept the offer of 45 cents an hour and nine hours a day.
A very few musket volleys, and the poor, deluded strikers went away, though a good many staid there in their blood.
He regretted that he was not at the White House, just a few hours, to put the deserved quietus on the strikers in Pennsylvania who were shamelessly destroying other people's property.
The next day, and the next, the strikers refused to either work or disperse.
The bosses made no move that night; and when morning came, the strikers hurried to the meeting-place, some of them without even stopping for breakfast.
Ever since these mines had been started, the operators had controlled the local powers of government, and now, in the emergency, they had brought in the state militia as well, and used it frankly to drive the strikers back to work.
They know that violence is used, both secretly and openly; and they know it is used because the strikerscannot do any other way, without giving up the fight at once.
The strikers knew that what had been said was meant, and quietly went off to work, and there has been no trouble since with this dangerous element of the population.
First they tried persuasion, and pointed out to the strikers that by their action they were prejudicing the cause of freedom which they had so loudly acclaimed but a few days before.
She had seen them kill the strikers as mercilessly as the strikers had killed the scabs.
She saw Pinkertons, special police, and strikers go down.
Might not Ned Hermanmann some day club and shoot Billy just as those other policemen clubbed and shot the strikers by her front steps?
A rattling of revolver-shots from the strikers drew Saxon's attention to the men beneath her.
Quite without surprise, she saw the strikers leaping the fence, trampling her few little geraniums and pansies into the earth as they fled between Mercedes' house and hers.
Policemen had run upon the scene with drawn revolvers, and the strikers had retreated into the houses and through the narrow alleys between the houses.
He's a special policeman, an' he didn't do a thing to the strikers in some of the fightin'.
When he was Police Commissioner, strikers in New York were coming into continual conflict with the police.
When martial law was really proclaimed, however, the strikersdid not like it.
That is why the unions in the other districts are supporting the strikers and have been doing so for a year.
In March came the trials of a number of the strikers and their sympathizers--approximately fifty--by a military court on charges of inciting to riot, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to destroy property.
The law was enforced with vigor and a number of the strikers were put in prison for violating the law against unlawful assemblages.
They did not mince matters in telling of the brutal murder by the strikers of the mine guard Stringer; nor did they hedge in publishing what was done by the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek Colliery Companies.
At first it was restricted to the dockers, but the number of the strikers was soon swelled by the adhesion of the quay-labourers and of several other categories of port-labourers and seamen.
So you want to band all the strikers together here, do you?
The chairman of the strikers from one shop was set upon by a gang of thugs while he was collecting funds, and beaten and maimed so that he was confined to his bed for weeks.
This flat instance of discrimination inspired the officers of the Woman's Trade-Union League to protest to Police Commissioner Baker against the arbitrary oppression of the strikers by the policemen.
These and other illegal oppressions visited on the strikersroused a number of members of the Woman's Trade-Union League to assist the girls in peaceful picketing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strikers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
