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Today in labor history: Soldiers flee striking Pittsburgh workers

by: Special to PeoplesWorld.org
on July 19 2013

tags: railroad workers, strike, history, unions

On this day in 1877 during the Great Railroad strike, workers in Pittsburgh forced soldiers sent to quell the job action to flee the city.

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