August 24 - Weaponizing the War Against Labor

24/08/2025 1 min Episodio 2607
August 24 - Weaponizing the War Against Labor

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Episode Synopsis

The year was 1877. 
That summer during what came to be known as “The Great Upheaval,” police, the US Army, and the National Guard brutally crushed a national railroad strike.  The simmering anger of working people had many elected officials and industrialists on edge.