If you were a Robber Baron!
Railway workers were paid poorly in 1877, but the bosses
wanted more money. So they cut wages. It started a strike on
July 14, 1877, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and spread nationwide. More than 20 workers were killed, and the
government was forced to send in troops. Facing the military, the strike petered out; the workers returned to their jobs. With no pay increase.
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
