Pacific Electric Railway strike of 1903 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 19/01/2019

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00:01:02 1 Demands
00:01:39 2 Background
00:03:27 3 Strategies of Union Federal Mexicanos
00:06:04 4 Strategies used by Pacific Electric against the strikers
00:07:30 5 End of strike
00:08:16 6 Significance of strike
00:08:54 7 See also



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The Pacific Electric Railway strike of 1903 was an industrial dispute between Mexican tracklayers and their employers on the construction of the Main Street streetcar line in Los Angeles. The dispute began on April 24 when the workers, known as the "Traqueros", demanded higher wages to match those of the European immigrants working on the same project, and stopped work. It ended on April 29 when the union organising the strike failed to persuade workers on rest of the streetcar system to join the strike, and the labourers returned to work.
The strike was organised by the Union Federal Mexicanos, representing about 700 workers. Their employer, Henry E. Huntington, hired replacement workers for the duration of the strike from other projects at higher rates of pay, in order to meet the deadline for completion of the line, which coincided with the visit of President Theodore Roosevelt.