Monday -
- Labor Unions
- Fought for weekends
- Child Labor Laws
- Overtime
- Minimum wage
- Injury Protection
- Workmen's compensation
- Knights of Labor
- Terrence Powderly - leader
- allowed all workers of an industry to join
- Started in 1869
- American Federation of Labor
- started in 1886
- Samuel Gompers - leader
- broken into "craft unions"
- still around today
- How did they get better wages and conditions?
- Strikes, picketing
- Sit-ins
- Violence
- Why did they lose strikes?
- owner had all power
- fire them
- immigrants would work cheap and the conditions were better that Europe
- hire strikebreakers to take place of workers
- would impose lockouts
- blacklist workers
- were called socialists or communists
- everyone was against them at first
- owners
- police
- government
- newspapers
- Labor Day
- Pullman Strike - 1894
- strikers died at the hands of th US Army
- Pres Grover Cleveland in 1894
- passed it unanimously to appease labor unions
Tuesday - Movie
Wednesday - Movie
Thursday - Movie
Friday - Work Day
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