But mass production also created millions of low-paid, unskilled, unreliable jobs with long hours and dangerous working conditions.
Again, hard to hear about the horrible and disgusting conditions that people used to call work.
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The wealthy president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas Andrew Scott, who had been Assistant Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, is often named as one of the first Robber Barons of the Gilded Age. Scott suggested that if striking workers complained they were hungry, they should be given “a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread.”
This part of the text is sad and sort of surprising. It was obvious that life wasn't the best at this time, and conditions weren't the best for most, but to hear more about what conditions were like, especially for such a big operation, it's sad to hear about.
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Panicked business leaders and their political allies reacted quickly. When local police forces would not or could not suppress the strikes, governors called on state militias or even the US Army to break them and restore rail service.
I found this interesting because of how far and how quickly they would go to restore the railroad services. It's interesting to me how important it was at the time.
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