Calling all Communist Historians pt 2

[mrmitchell]

Is there any place I could see a list of strikes that happened in Nevada in the 1890s?

[Theben]

Teh internet.

[Agathon]

No one write his paper for him.

[mrmitchell]

I guess it was kind of a broad question, although henceforth Agathon is removed from the World Registry of Helpful Communist Historians.

In the box of tax receipts etc. mentioned in the "New Worlders" thread, there's a postcard (I think it was dated 1895 but I'm not sure) addressed to my great grandmother from a guy in Nevada. The picture side of the post card shows what looks like a fairly typical factory with "This is the smelter" written on it--the writing side says a strike is going on and the sender will mail her back (Tuesday IIRC) on his plans (apparently for coming to Camden, I'm not sure.)

I don't recognize the sender's initials at all (he uses no name, just initials) and I was rushed so I didn't think of taking the post card with me but this listed above is all the identifiable information that it gave anyway.

There's nothing else we have that correlates with this Nevada story, no pictures, or letters, just this lone postcard.

[Ecthy]

Is there a date on it?

[chequita guevara]

A list of all of them?

Well, you can start with histories of the Western Miners Federation, Big Bill Haywood, the Wobblies (you might want to look them up, too). Check out Foner's History of the Labor Movement in the United States (it's a multivolume set). Look up the Nevada Labor Council, also. There's quite a bit of stuff out there as it was instrumental in building the labor movement in this country.

[lord of the mark]

Mining would be the focus, as that and railroads would be the major industries. Would a railroad strike on say the SP (dont know if there were any) count as a Nevada strike?