1877 St. Louis general strike

1877 St. Louis general strike
1877 St. Louis general strike
Part of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
	The St. Louis Republic rendered the strikers as greedy and ruthless.
Date	July 22–July 28, 1877
Location	St. Louis
Goals	Eight-hour day, Ban on child labor
Methods	General strike, Lockdowns (Rails, Industry)
Casualties and losses
Deaths: 18

The 1877 St. Louis general strike was one of the first general strikes in the United States. It grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.