In June 1930 , after fifteen months of living in poverty and starvation , the miners capitulated Sign_agreement and returned Arriving to work on reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale contract wages .

The conflict Hostile_encounter began Process_start in Pullman , Chicago , on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began Process_start a wildcat strike Attack in response to recent reductions in wages .

When his company laid off Placing workers and lowered Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale wages , it did not reduce Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale rents , and the workers called Request for a strike .

Estimates of well over $ 2.5 million for unpaid wages and services Supply are being claimed Statement by creditors including the City of Napa , venue provider Napa Valley Expo , a variety of security , catering and transportation companies , a local of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and individuals .

It accounted for 10 % of the community 's retail space and 6 % of the total wages .

A number of new questions were asked Request including where people were 5 years before , highest educational grade achieved Achieve , and information about wages .

The Union Pacific Coal Department found Know it economically beneficial to give Giving preference in hiring Employment to Chinese miners , who were willing to work Employment for lower wages than their white counterparts , angering Hostile_encounter the white miners .

Wage cuts in the industry began Process_start immediately , and wages were slashed Removing again in early 1894 .

The demand Request was for wages to return Giving to the level they were at on May 1 , 1893 .

But the mine owners were unwilling and/or unable to restore Recovering wages .

Some owners adjusted Change wages slightly upward , but most refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to budge .

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 sometimes referred Name_conferral to as the Great Upheaval , began Process_start on July 14 in Martinsburg , West Virginia , United States after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) cut wages for the third time in a year .

Because of economic problems and pressure on wages by the railroads , workers in numerous other cities , in New York , Pennsylvania and Maryland , into Illinois and Missouri , also went out Self_motion on strike .

Labor continued to work Being_in_operation to organize Arranging into unions to work Being_in_operation for better wages and conditions .

With public attention on workers ' wages and conditions , the B & O in 1880 founded Creating an Employee Relief Association to provide Supply death benefits and some health care .