The St. Louis streetcar strike sputters to…
September 1900 CE
However, a young lawyer named Joseph W. Folk represents the striking workers in the settlement, and will soon work as the city prosecutor pursuing the city's corrupt Democratic boss Edward Butler, and by 1904 will be Governor of Missouri.
The same spirit of reform will see the election of Mayor Rolla Wells on a reform platform, and an exposé of St. Louis corruption by Lincoln Steffens published in McClure's in 1902 (later to be collected in The Shame of the Cities), will be said to be the first example of muckraking journalism.
Whitaker will thrive as a St. Louis businessman—in 1910 he will become president of Boatmen's Bank.
Similar streetcar labor actions with similar results happened in Cleveland in 1899, and will occur in Indianapolis in 1913.
St. Louis streetcar workers will strike again in 1918.
St. Louis streetcar workers will strike again in 1918.
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