Eric Eggen

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The state of Pennsylvania indicted strike leaders and some strikers for murder, riot, and conspiracy. It was an overreach; most juries would not convict, but the trials drained the union coffers and put workers on the defensive.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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