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November 17, 2025

Today in 1900
Martin Irons dies near Waco, Texas. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he emigrated to the U.S. at age 14. He joined the Knights of Labor and in 1886 led a strike of 200,000 workers against the Jay Gould-owned Union Pacific and Missouri railroads. The strike was crushed, Irons was blacklisted and he died broken-down and penniless. Said Mother Jones: “The capitalist class hounded him as if he had been a wild beast.”

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Applications for the Local's 2012 Scholarship Now Available
Posted On: Apr 02, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012 | An award of $8,000 in financial assistance to 2 college-bound students will be offered at our monthly meeting in May in Baltimore. Selected in a random drawing, the annual awards are presented to sons and daughters of Teamsters Local 355 members for use in pursuing an undergraduate degree at an accredited college or university of the student's choice. Click here for more information and to download the application.


 
 
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