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[[Image:1908StrikeAd.png|right|thumb|150px|The Pensacola Electric Company placed an ad seeking strikebreakers in the April 6, 1908 edition of the ''Pensacola Evening News''.]]A violent '''labor strike''' was staged in Pensacola from [[April 7]]–[[May 13]], [[1908]] by streetcar operators employed by the [[Pensacola Electric Company]]. The striking workers attempted to organise a local chapter of the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway Employees of America (now the [[Wikipedia:Amalgamated Transit Union|Amalgamated Transit Union]]). The strike resulted in several deaths and caused the Governor of Florida to order the State militia into Pensacola.
On [[April 7]], streetcar operators working for the [[Pensacola Electric Company]], the operator of Pensacola's electric streetcar transit system, went on strike. On [[April 12]], Florida Governor [[Wikipedia:Napoleon B. Broward|Napoleon B. Broward]] ordered the State militia into Pensacola to protect strikebreakers and restore order. On [[April 14]], under protection of the militia, the city's streetcars were run for the first time in nine days. The city remained calm for about one week until [[April 21]], when a mob attacked a streetcar and fatally wounded the conductor, a [[G. Hoffman]]. Stenographer [[W. L. Wittich, Jr.]] was also fired upon while boarding a streetcar.
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Image:1908militia.jpg|State militia camping in the median of [[Palafox Street]]
Image:1908militia2.jpg|State militia outside the [[Old Escambia County Courthouse]]
