Strikebreakers

After Pinkerton agents killed at least seven strikers during the Homestead Strike that July, Kem supported a resolution to investigate the corporate use of violent strikebreakers.

London’s words ring with a harsh truth, and we can illustrate his point by looking at the discomforting status of Black strikebreakers in American labor history.

In both films, the strikebreakers are mistreated when the strike ends, in the first film by lower wages and in the second by abrupt dismissals.

The first few hundred workers were brought to southeast Iowa as strikebreakers, Chase wrote.

Adding fuel to the fire the railroad companies began hiring replacement workers (that is, strikebreakers ), which only increased hostilities.

Frick brought in thousands of strikebreakers to work the steel mills and Pinkerton agents to safeguard them.

In 1940 more black strikebreakers were brought in to work in the Rath meat plant.

The city's labor and management clashed in bitter strikes, racial tension escalated as blacks were hired as strikebreakers, and ethnic strife broke out.

The remaining Joads work as strikebreakers in a peach orchard, where Casy is involved in a strike that eventually turns violent.