Mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Penn. leaves more than 100 dead – 1891

In convention at Topeka, Kansas, delegates create the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. The men who repaired the nation's rail cars were paid 10 or 15 cents an hour, working 12 hours a day, often seven days a week - 1890

Knights of Labor strike New York Central railroad, ultimately to be defeated by scabbing - 1890