. Annals of the great strikes in the United States. A reliable history and graphic description of the causes and thrilling events of the labor strikes and riots of 1877 . restored. He also called upon thecitizens to enroll as special police for the protection ofthe city. The arrest of B. J. Donohue, who was apparently theorganizer of the strikers at Buffalo, as well as Hornells-ville, and indeed throughout Western New York, wasan episode in the history of movements in that sectionof no little interest, and considerable importance. Tothis man, more than any other, was due the complete-ness and
. Annals of the great strikes in the United States. A reliable history and graphic description of the causes and thrilling events of the labor strikes and riots of 1877 . restored. He also called upon thecitizens to enroll as special police for the protection ofthe city. The arrest of B. J. Donohue, who was apparently theorganizer of the strikers at Buffalo, as well as Hornells-ville, and indeed throughout Western New York, wasan episode in the history of movements in that sectionof no little interest, and considerable importance. Tothis man, more than any other, was due the complete-ness and effectiveness of the strike on the Erie and LakeShore roads. He organized it, not only at Hornellsville,but throughout the Western Division of the Erie Rail-road. He managed it in his own way, establishing hisheadquarters with all the confidence of a military chief-tain taking command of his forces. His orders werethe law of the strikers and possibly the cause of thestrike. He showed himself as much a favorite amongtrackmen, brakemen and firemen on the road as wasJack Kehoe, the King of the Mollies, among the minersof the anthracite region. And as Kehoe was not a. THE CONSTRUCTION GANG REPAIRING THE TRACKS UNDER PROTECTION^OF THE MILITIA. THE TUMULT AT BUFFALO. 161 miner, so Donohue, properly speaking, was not a rail-roader. Sometimes he served as a brakeman, but thenonly as a substitute; and once he kept a saloon. Hisreal business was that of the timer, or buyer oftime, and he made large profits out of the people whosechampion he assumed to be, by advancing them moneyat a high interest—as much as fifteen per cent, it isasserted—in anticipation of the paymaster. When thestrike, which impended because of the reduction ofwages at the beginning of July last, was ordered, Dono-hue was made chairman of the committee having thematter in charge. In this way he naturally became theleader when the strike actually came; and more thanthis, it may be said that the strike was his own cr
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