July 6

Rail union leader Eugene V. Debs is arrested during the Pullman strike, described by the New York Times as "a struggle between the greatest and most important labor organization and the entire railroad capital" that involved some 250,000 workers in 27 states at its peak – 1894

 Also on this date: Two strikers and a bystander are killed, 30 seriously wounded by police in Duluth, MN. Two barges, loaded with Pinkerton thugs hired by the Carnegie Steel Co., landed on the south bank of the Monongahela River in Homestead, PA. seeking to put down a strike by members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers. Transit workers in New York begin what is to be an unsuccessful 3-week strike against the then-privately owned IRT subway. Explosions and fires destroy the Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea, killing 167 oil workers -- the worse loss of life ever in an offshore oil disaster. 

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