1889: Two strikers and a bystander are killed, 30 seriously wounded by police in Duluth, MN.
1892: Two barges loaded with Pinkerton thugs hired by the Carnegie Steel Co., landed on the south bank of the Monongahela River in Homestead, Penn. seeking to occupy Carnegie Steel Works and put down a strike by members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers.
1894: Rail union leader Eugene V. Debs is arrested during the Pullman strike.
1926: Transit workers in New York begin what is to be an unsuccessful 3-week strike against the then-privately owned IRT subway
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