Fry, organizer of the Los Angeles-based "Fry's Army" march to Washington in 1894. Only a small handful of protestors eventually arriving in Washington, DC with Fry, where their protest efforts were ineffectual. In these adverse conditions the movement melted away, splitting into rival factions in Indiana. Louis and the remaining members of the group began a difficult march by foot. Key support was gained from the governor of Texas, which prevented mass arrest or a worse outcome, but rail transport ended in St. Two trains were stolen in the course of the march, which brought Fry's Army into conflict with the authorities. Fry's Army was one of about 40 "Industrial Armies" formed in 1894 to organize and transport unemployed workers for a march on Washington, D.C., the best remembered of which was the Ohio-based movement known as Coxey's Army.īeginning with an enrollment of 850 people, the "army" made a difficult cross-country journey by foot following the refusal of railroads to transport the protestors. Encampment of Fry's Army across the river from Terre Haute, Indiana, April 1894.įry's Army was the informal name given to a short-lived radical protest movement organized in Los Angeles, California in 1894 and headed by trade union and socialist political activist Lewis C.
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