source, the service system, the arrival and service patterns, and the priorities used for controlling the line. Letâs ï¬rst look at the primary input into the waiting line system: the customers. The Customer Population The customer population can be considered to be ï¬nite or inï¬nite. When potential
As a result of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, railroad companies lost millions of dollars because without the workers to maintain the tracks, operate the cars, etc. The trains could not function, which meant that people could not ride them. Comments.
The Homestead Strike was when, in 1892, Andrew Carnegie reduced wages at his steel mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania and the union workers refused to accept the cut. The companâ¦y locked out the union workers and hired nonunion labor and 300 armed guards.