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Great Lakes Tug Workers Strike

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 7, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 19.

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Great Lakes Tug Workers Strike

On April 23 all the deck hands and firemen on the tugs operating in the Chicago River and harbor declared a strike. The same class of laborers in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Toledo joined with the Chicago strikers, and a complete tie-up of the whole towing business on the great lakes was the result.