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For sale is this just shy of 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 Postcard, with a hard plastic sleeve cover, which I believe is in Great Shape. However, that is only my belief. Please see photos for condition and you be the judge.
If you have any questions, please contact me before offerding or buying.Returns are not accepted unless the pin has significant damage or defects not visible in the photos or otherwise noted.Guaranteed to be authentic and original as described and shown.
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This U.S. postcard was made and sold to raise funds and support for the Columbus Ohio streetcar strike. (See history below)
Of note, The purchaser andsender of the card was a witness to the strike. The message on the back of the card reads in part: \"This is quite an exciting time During the Strike.\"Card is dated August 14, 1910.
The 1910 streetcar strike was a union protest againstlabor practices by the Columbus Railway and Light Co. in Columbus, Ohio in1910. The summertime strike began as peaceful protests, but led to thousandsrioting throughout the city, injuring hundreds of people.
In early 1910, 35 employees of the company met withmanager E.K. Stewart, requesting increased wages. The company fired the entiregroup as a result. In March, about half of the Columbus Railway and LightCompany\'s employees formed a local chapter of the Amalgamated Association ofStreet and Electric Railway Employees labor union.The public primarily sided with the union.
The strike began July 24. Theunion\'s chapter had grown to 600 members by this point. They planned to notshow up for work selling union buttons around the city and picketing thecompany\'s streetcar barns.
The streetcar company chose to hire strikebreakers at$30 per week, over double the standard wage of $12.50. They also hired aspecial policing force, supplied by the local John J. Mahoney Detective Agency,to protect the streetcars and facilities.
The strike ended up more serious, as crowds barricadedstreetcar tracks and threw bricks and rocks into the streetcars. The companypolice responded with gunfire. That night, 76 people were arrested, thoughriots continued on the following day.
Mayor George Sidney Marshall called in about 5,000members of the Ohio National Guard. The troops kept order in the city untiltheir departure on August 7. More rioting than took place, with shootings,barricades, stonings, and empty streetcars blown up with dynamite. It led tothe National Guard returning, and the union and public more so aiming for apeaceful end to the riots.
Still, about 3,000 to 4,000 strikers, sympathizers,and disrupters continued to riot. It led to a bad public image of the city,hurting business activity, and worrying the city planning for a state fair inSeptember.
On October 18, the union admitted defeat
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