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The Richmond Transit Strike Of 1903, Thomas Jefferson Headlee Jr.
The Richmond Transit Strike Of 1903, Thomas Jefferson Headlee Jr.
Master's Theses
A general history of the American Labor movement introduces the reader to the mainstream of trade unionism in the United States. It is the purpose of this paper however, to record the events of only one of the less important incidents in the twentieth century. That this experiment of labor in Richmond, Virginia in the year 1903 should have failed, does not detract from its value to the historian, for the study of even an unsuccessful strike may add to our knowledge of the various unions and anti-unionism. In addition, it certainly behooves us, as Richmond's, to learn something further …