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  1. Fruit Workers End Strike
    date April 1, 1881map HAMILTON, Texastags Agriculture, Economy

    Laborers on fruit farms near Chattanooga received a pay raise to 5.50 per ton after striking for two months. Strikes became much more common throughout the 1870s and early 1880s with the organization of labor, such as the Knights of Labor and the “forerunner of the American Federation of Labor,' which was founded in 1881. The Knights of Labor, for one, did not necessarily present an “innovative...