Thursday 23rd May 2013 01:16 AM

November 21, 1863 - Newspapers across the country reported on strikes and protests against high prices during the Civil War. Among the groups identified in a New York article were machinists, railroad workers, house painters, carpenters, lithographic printers, window shade painters, horse shoers and sugar packers. “Imperfect as we confess our list to be,” the newspaper reported, “there is enough to convince the reader that the social revolution now working its way through the land must succeed, if workingmen are only true to each other.”