Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — Strike That Failed. [ARTICLE]

Strike That Failed.

Labor strikes were frequent even in the earliest recorded days. An Important strike occurred in Egypt during the reign of Cheops, several thousand years before the Christian era. While the great pyramid erected in honor of that monarch was in course of construction it is stated that 50.000 workmen refused to continue their labors. They were dissatisfied with the food furnished to them, which was insufficient in quantity and poor in quality. Argument proving useless on the part of the contractors, soldiers were ordered to drive the strikers back to work, and many thousands of them were cut to pieces, while those who could escape fled. The others were compelled to resume their labor.