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A Look Back • 1877 railroad strike paralyzed city
BY TIM O'NEIL ST. LOUIS • The summer of 1877 simmered in the fourth year of a depression. When the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad cut pay another 10 percent, outraged depot workers in Martinsburg, W.Va., stopped the trains. Their wildcat strike spread …