A Chicago "slugger," paid $50 by labor unions for every scab he "discouraged," described his job in an interview: "Oh, there ain't nothing to it. I gets my fifty, then I goes out and finds the guy they wanna have slugged, then I gives it to ?im" - 1911
?Fighting Mary? Eliza McDowell, also known as the ?Angel of the Stockyards,? born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women?s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 - 1854