Chapter 6 Section 4

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Chapter 6Section 4

• Workers of the Nation Unite

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Growth of Labor Unions

• Dangerous conditions
• Low wages
• Long hours
• Unequal pay

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Early Labor Unions

• National Labor Union
• 1866
• Founded by William Sylvis
• 1st large scale labor union

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Knights of Labor

• 1868
• Uriah Stephens

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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

• 1886
• Samuel Gompers
• Collective Bargaining
• Technique to win workers
• rights

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International Workers of the World

• Wobblies
• 1905
• William Haywood
• Radical unionists and
• socialists

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Strikes Turn Violent

• Haymarket Affair 1886 Chicago McCormick
  Harvester Plant
• Homestead Steel Carnegie plant
• SCAB labor unpopular and used to break strikes

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

• New York City
• Fire 146 women died
• Results
• Establishment of fire codes
• 54-hour maximum week for women and minors
• No Sunday work
• No child under 14 allowed to work in factories