The House Is Restless. It Has Been Before.
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PITTSBURGH — In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey’s Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The country was in the second year of a four-year depression, the worst in its history up to that time, and the city, fresh from the violence and lost lives of the Homestead Strike, did not allow the men entran
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