6/29/2023 0 Comments Coxey's Army; A Study Of The Industrial Army Movement Of 1894 by Donald L. McMurry![]() Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.Īrmy, army. Reprint, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. Coxey's Army: A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894. Many of Kelly's supporters, however, continued their journey on foot and eventually joined Coxey's army in Washington. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the railroad ejected Kelly's army. Coxey's army, which had recently captured national headlines by marching from Ohio to the nation's capital. In the spring of 1894, Kelly's followers boarded railroad boxcars bound for Washington, D.C. Kelly rallied fifteen hundred men, many out of work, to this cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() KELLY'S INDUSTRIAL ARMY was one of a number of "industrial armies," born of the panic of 1893, that pressed the federal government to help the unemployed. ![]()
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