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July 14

The Great Uprising nationwide railway strike begins in Martinsburg, WV after railroad workers are hit with their second pay cut in a year.

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July 13

Southern Tenant Farmers' Union organized in Tyronza, Ark. - 1934

July 13

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July 12

Bisbee, Ariz. deports Wobblies; 1,186 miners sent into desert in manure-laden boxcars.

July 12

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July 11

Striking coal miners in Coeur d?Alene, Idaho dynamite barracks housing Pinkerton management thugs - 1892

July 11

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July 10

Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist, born - 1875 14,000 federal and state troops finally succeed in putting down the strike against the Pullman Palace Car Co., which had been peaceful until July 5, when federal troops intervened in Chicago, against the repeated protests of the Governor and Chicago?s mayor. Some 34 American Raily Union members were killed by troops over the course of the strike - 1894

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July 9

The worst rail accident in U.S. history occurred when two trains pulled by 80-ton locomotives collided head-on at Dutchman?s curve in west Nashville, Tenn. 101 people died, another 171 were injured - 1918

July 9