American Decades
"LBJ and Big Strikes—Is Rail Fight a Pattern?"
Magazine article
By: U.S. News & World Report
Date: April 27, 1964
Source: "LBJ and Big Strikes—Is Rail Fight a Pattern?" U.S. News & World Report, April 27, 1964, 99–101.
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Introduction
In the United States during the nineteenth century, business invariably held the upper hand over labor. And when the two clashed, the American government at every level invariably sided with business. In fact, as capital's last line of defense, the U.S. Army had intervened directly to break strikes, first in 1877 involving...
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