Flashback: Minnesota's first labor strike hit St. Paul in 1854, while a 1934 strike killed three - Duluth News Tribune

As Minnesota's territorial population exploded in the mid-1800s, workers began organizing and unionizing to fight for their rights, though it sometimes turned deadly.

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