The Government Watching the Strikers

This brief article from the July 25, 1877 issue of the Pittsburgh Daily Post notes the government's interest in the strike as well as its desire to keep the War Department aware of the strike's spread.

THE GOVERNMENT WATCHING THE
STRIKERS.

The government has made complete arrangements for having immediate telegraphic communication with every point where strikers are. Every signal observer has been ordered to inform the War Department of the situation of affairs in his vicinity.