Pullman Strike (1894)
The first labor strike to end with the president intervening on behalf of the workers was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to quell the strike and ordered the strikers to disperse, effectively ending the strike. This marked a turning point in labor relations in the United States and demonstrated the government's willingness to intervene in labor disputes.
Pullman Strike (1894)
Roosevelt in 1902 also took action unprecedented in the history of the presidency by intervening on labor's behalf to force the arbitration of a strike by the United Mine Workers of America against the Pennsylvania anthracite coal operators.
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increase in wages
Increase In Wages
President Roosevelt invited representatives from the coal operators as well as the United Mine Workers union to the White House to try to get the two sides to settle their differences. The union was prepared to end the strike while negations continued if the coal operators would offer a small pay increase to the mine workers, but the coal operators declined to make a deal.
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workers strike because they did not get what they wanted
Other workers went on strike in support.
In 1919 after WWI when the government was less willing to cooperate with workers four million workers went on strike.
Ulster Workers' Council strike happened on 1974-05-28.