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Syndicalist Tendencies in the American Labor Movement
By Max Baginski
Published in the February 1912 issue of Mother Earth (Vol VI, No. 12)
IN the beginning of May, 1886, 366,000 organized American workingmen voiced the demand for the eight-hour day. It was made in connection with a demonstration of 15,000 employees of the Gould Southwestern railroad lines that took place some weeks previously to protest against the miserably low wages. The latter ranged, in some places, between 55-75 cents per day.
Of the 366,000 workers, 150,000 immediately won their demands, as we learn from Sartorius von Waltershauten in his book “Modern Socialism in the United States.” 216,000 men participated in the strike. Of this number 42,000 gained the eight-hour day, so that altogether 192,000 men won their demands.
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