Francis ONeill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as asailor he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the GreatFire of 1... » 

Francis ONeill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as asailor he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the GreatFire of 1871. Looking back on his life he gives firsthand accounts of thePullman strike of 1894 the railway strike of 1903 and the packinghouse strikeof 1904. «