2 passages in 2 source items for “Irish strike aqueduct”

…There has been a flare-up amongst the Irish laborers on the Croton Aqueduct occasioned by the contractors reducing their wages from $1 to 75 cents/day. Large numbers turned out and marched from Westchester to Harlem, prevented others from…

…Following an ineffectual intervention from a New York City militia, this strike was finally put down by a Westchester posse. Indeed, the Westchester landowners often resented the presence of the massive camps of mostly Roman Catholic Irish laborers, whom they…