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In today's labor history, on this date in 1877, workers staged a general strike – believed to be the nation’s first – in St. Louis, in support of striking railroad workers. The successful strike was ended when some 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized special police killed at least eighteen people in skirmishes around the city. Today’s labor quote is by American labor lawyer and author Thomas Geoghegan, who said: “A union movement in America will always be a scandal...the subversive thing about labor is not the strike, but the idea of Solidarity.”
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