Pressured by employers, striking shoemakers in Philadelphia are arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy for violating an English common law that bars schemes aimed at forcing wage increases.
Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill. for role in Pullman strike -
1895 _(for more on Debs, check out [19]The Bending Cross: A Biography of
Eugene V. Debs __in the UCS bookstore)_
Links:
19. http://unionist.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9cee310b2c78fa78985b76038&id=f4be4d557e&e=7eab64386f