The Salt Lake City Railroad Strike of 1890

Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, January 1995 Organized labor suffered many setbacks in the late 19th century. Workers in the “unskilled” or “semiskilled” trades found it particularly difficult to gain workplace rights. In September 1890 the streetcar men of Salt Lake City learned a hard lesson in the realities of worker/management relations. Streetcars were a new phenomenon in Salt Lake …