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St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900
The St. Louis streetcar strike of 1900 was a labor action, and resulting civil disruption, against the St. Louis Transit Company by a group of three thousand workers unionized by the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees of America.
Between May 7 and the end of the strike in September, 14 people had been killed, and 200 wounded.
==Background==
Until 1899 there had been ten independent streetcar operating companies in St. Louis, providing regular transit service in the fourth-largest city in the United States.〔after New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago, The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War By Adam Arenson, page 218〕 That year, those ten lines were consolidated into two: the St. Louis & Suburban Railway, and the St. Louis Transit Company,〔The St. Louis electrical handbook: being a guide for visitors ..., Volume 10 By American Institute of Electrical Engineers, page 140〕 headed by Edwards Whitaker.
Under pressure of long hours, low pay, and poor working conditions, the employees of both lines attempted to unionize as Local 131. Whitaker fired his 3,300 workers summarily and was soon running streetcars only with the help of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, who had volunteered up to a thousand men for that duty.
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