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Title: Rise of Labor Unions


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Rise of Labor Unions
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Conditions of the Worker
  • Workers faced low wages and long hours
  • Families often sent children to work, rather than
    school, in order to survive
  • Unions formed to help workers

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Knights of Labor
  • Sought to organize all workers under one banner

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Haymarket Riot
  • Workers protest in favor of an 8 hour workday
  • Radicals set off bomb
  • Rioting kills police and protestors
  • Caused Knights of Labor to lose support

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Samuel Gompers
  • Became the first leader of the American
    Federation of Labor (AFL)

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  • Focused on collective bargaining to reach
    agreements on wages, hours, and working
    conditions
  • Used strikes to win higher wages and shorter work
    weeks

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Eugene Debs
  • Led the American Railway Union
  • One of the most influential union leaders
  • Led the Pullman Strike

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Employers Fight the Unions
  • Forbade union meetings
  • Fired union members
  • Forced new employees to sign yellow-dog
    contracts, swearing they will not join a union

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Employers Fight the Unions
  • Lockouts When business owners prevent employees
    from working
  • Scabs Replacement workers
  • Blacklists lists of workers employers would not
    hire

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Great Strike of 1877
  • Workers at B O Railroad struck because of
    second wage cut in two months
  • Strike shut down railroad lines
  • President Hayes sent troops to end strike because
    it disrupted interstate commerce

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