...Why you don't have nothin but new ringtones.

At the time of the strike, Gould owned all the elevated rail lines in New York City, the Western Union telegraph service and the Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Missouri Kansas & Texas (M-K-T) railroads. In total, Gould owned almost 12 percent of all railroad track in the U.S.

The strike began when a member of the Knights of Labor in Marshall, Texas was fired for attending a union meeting on company time. The local chapter of the Knights called a strike.

Soon, more than 200,000 workers were on strike in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Although the dismissal of the leadman in Texas had sparked the initial strike, wages, hours and unsafe working conditions motivated most of the strikers.

From the start there were problems. The Brotherhood of Engineers refused to honor the strike, and its members kept working.

Meanwhile, Gould immediately hired strikebreakers to work the railroad, famously declaring, 'I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.'

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southwest_Railroad_Strike_of_1886