Great Railroad Strike of 1922
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July 1, 1922 by seven of the sixteen extant railroad labor organizations, the strike continued into August before collapsing. A sweeping judicial injunction by Judge James Herbert Wilkerson effectively ended the strike on September 1, 1922.
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Workers leave their railroad duties to strike | |||
| Date | July 1, 1922 – September 1922 | ||
| Location | Nationwide | ||
| Caused by | A cut in wages paid to maintenance workers | ||
| Methods | Railway shopmen walked off the job on July 1, 1922 launching a nationwide railway strike. | ||
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| Death(s) | 10 | ||
At least ten strikers or family members were killed during the work stoppage. The collective action of some 400,000 workers in the summer of 1922 was the largest railroad strike since the American Railway Union's Pullman Strike of 1894 and the biggest American strike of any kind since the Great Steel Strike of 1919.
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