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5 photos tagged strikebreakers, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• libraryofcongress
• 1910s
• scabs
• laborhistory
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• unionhistory
• strike
• nyc
• newyorkcity
• cobblestone
• garbagestrike
• dsny
• newyorkcitydepartmentofsanitation
• strikers
• architecture
• cart
• horseandbuggy
• horseandcart
• brickstreets
• socialunrest
• dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain09883
• horses
• horse
• wagon

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• The Library of Congress 4 photos
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo

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British coal strike - building up reserves for Midland Railway (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  typo in title. 'biding" should be 'building'

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks for the tip! We’ll need to correct the typo so that we can keep the information we show here in Flickr and in our own catalog ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html) in sync

• Alan Denney said:

  This is probably the 1912 strike, the first ever national coal strike. The strikers were fighting for the establishment of a national minimum wage and the men in the photograph are strike-breaking scabs.

30 class tank engine and schoolboy rail strikebreakers with Union Jack on the engine, August 1917, by Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

• GrenadierGuardsDmr said:

  The Kings School played a large part in the strike breaking, and those hats (though not the hat bands) look like their uniform.

Guarding approach to mills, Lawrence, Mass. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2kjb said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lawrence, MA, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

• snipe106 said:

  The photo is dated "1/12" January 1912 the beginning of the Lawrence Strike

• The Library of Congress said:

  2kjb, We received your request to have a Library of Congress photo added to your group: Lawrence, MA. Please click on the "Invite this photo to..." link below the comment box and we'll accept it.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks snipe106! We'll fix the date in the source data and reload the description.