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What did railroad workers do when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut their pay for the second time in 8 months in 1877?

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workers at the B&O station at Martinsburg, West Virginia, responded to the announcement of 10 percent wage cuts by uncoupling the locomotives in the station, confining them in the roundhouse, and declaring that no trains would leave Martinsburg unless the cut was rescinded

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