Chapter 8: Looking Backward, footnote 42, page 336 Ch8 fn. 42 p. 336 Tags: Discursive, Government Documents, Scholarly Articles, Labor, Ideology Ruth Allen, The Great Southwest Strike, Univ. of Texas Publication no. 4214, April 8, 1942, 48-49. Irons later told Powderly that he was forced to sign the strike order at the point of a gun, 56-62. The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886 on the Southwestern Railway System, Commissioner of Labor Statistics and Inspection, Missouri, 10-11, 16.
