Chapter 8: Looking Backward, footnote 50, page 339 Ch8 fn. 50 p. 339 Tags: Discursive, Published Letters/Correspondence, Government Documents, Histories and Biographies, Politics, Labor Official History puts the strikers at 9,000. At places like Kansas City or Omaha, where the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific connected, Union Pacific workers sympathized with the strike but stayed neutral. Allen, Great Southwest Strike, 71. Official History, 21. Callaway to Adams, March 22, 25, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 34, f. 2: Callaway.