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Events on Tuesday 4 September 1877 1
1877Great Railroad Strike of 1877First nationwide labor strike in United States historyRail workers walked out after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year, and the strike spread to cities across the country. Violent clashes with state militias and federal troops killed dozens of workers before the strike was suppressed. It marked the first large-scale labor uprising in American industrial history.