Two strikers and a bystander are killed, 30 seriously wounded by police in
Duluth, Minn. The workers, mostly immigrants building the city?s streets and
sewers, struck after contractors reneged on a promise to pay $1.75 a day -
1889
During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had
drastically reduced wages, buildings constructed for the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson park were set ablaze, reducing
seven to ashes - 1894