Word: striking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strikers on the Cambridge horse-car railroad spent the greater part of Saturday sunning themselves on Harvard square and trying to induce the new men to leave their work to join the strike...
...strike has introduced a new feature into winter athletics. Walking matches from Cambridge to Boston and back are not at all infrequent. We have heard of some very remarkable records being made. The absence authorized referees and time-keepers at these contests alone makes us hesitate to publish any of the records...
Last night Colonel Bancroft announced his intention of running cars again to-day, and without interruption, hereafter. The strike will probably not last over two or three days more. The company is determined not to yield; the strikers cannot prevent their places being filled by new men; and violence never is an ultimately successful thing, especially if it is illegally resorted to. In three days the strikers will have either gone back to their posts, or will have none to go back to; their only satisfaction and that a brief one, will be to see the green conductors ringing...
...Tribune trusts that Mr. Cook will enjoy the feast that is to be spread for him, and which he so richly deserves. He and President Dwight have done much for Yale. But can the alumni draw the dinner line at those two without inviting a strike in the Yale faculty? - New York Tribune...
...probable there will be a strike on the horse railroad to-day or to-morrow...