during the panic of 1893 and the depression, 3000 workers got laid off, and wages were cut, workers took home less then 6 dollars a week, in 1894 the strike began, the aru started to boycott the trains, pullman hared strikebreakers and the president cleveland sent troops, pullman fired some of the strikers. women had powerful leaders to demand their rights, mary harris jones was the most prominent organizer in the womens labor movement. in 1903 she exposed the cruelties of child laborers, and she continued fighting till she died, pauline newman was first female organizer of the international ladies garment workers union, she supported the uprising of the 20,000. when unions became more powerful employees began to fear them, employees fired union members, yellow dog contract. workers continued to view unions as very powerful, 1904 the AFL had about 1,700,000 members,
i that it was kind of interesting how many people were laid of because of the panic and the depression, what i did not like was that the fact that factory owners would lock the women in the building with the fear that they would steal something.
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