Word: shopworkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fall. Mr. Williams received first-hand information as to the rail situation. "One of the leading causes of the strike was the sudden calling off of the men's standing as railway workers, and the disregarding of seniority and priority rights by the practice of farming out the shopwork. On 19 different line shop-work was thus contracted out to dummy corporations, and as a result of this the workers on other roads feared that their standing and rights would also be nullified later, unless they made a protest...