that killed or injured several dozen people. The people wrongfully connected the Knights with the Anarchists‚ and the power of the Knights of Labor came to a dismal end. The Homestead strike in 1892 was the first major strike to take place after the downfall of the Knights. It started at Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead‚ Pennsylvania when workers refused to accept new wage cuts. Henry Clay Frick shut down the plant and surrounded it with guards to
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so concerned that it would do anything to stop these outbreaks. Some better known instances of these uprisings are the Homestead plant strike of 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894. In 1894 a Washington Post editorial describes the lawlessness and violent disorder in Chicago due to the labor strikers protesting the wage cuts by the Pullman Company. (Document D). The Pullman Palace Car Company was deeply effected by the depression.
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of depression‚ the Pullman Palace Car Company had to lay off 5‚800 workers and also cut wages from 25-50%. Even though they were making less money‚ the Pullman town didn’t lower the rent. On May 11th‚ 90% of the workers went on strike and a month later‚ ¼ million across the country joined them by refusing to pull Pullman sleeping cars. Lawyers‚ as tricky as they are‚ managed to get a court injunction to force the workers back to work by attaching a US mail car to a Pullman car and say the laborers
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References: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) History‚ (2006) Retrieved from: http://www.resource4flsalaw.com/historyoffairlaborstandardsact.html Foner‚ Phillip S. (1977) The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. New York‚ New York: Pathfinder Books The Homestead Strike (1999) Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html The Knights of Labor (2011) Retrieved from: http://www.knightsoflabor.com Kutalik‚ Chris (2005) What Does the AFL-CIO Split Mean? Retrieved from: http://labornotes
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| 6/6/2010 | Some of the more important events in labor union history included how unions were stereotyped as violent anarchist‚ and how they took a stance that invoked violent activity in three serious events; the Haymarket Riot‚ Homestead Incident and Pullman Strike and how these events in ways changed American labor union history. | Up through the late 1700’s to early 1800’s‚ men‚ women‚ and even children were subject to intolerable working conditions‚ low wages‚ and long hours. As the
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the Pullman Palace Car Co. strike‚ where the Pullman workers boycotted and burned railroads cars‚ however there was an injunction and railroads traffic continued despite their efforts. However‚ the more infamous strikes‚ the Great Railroad Strike and the Homestead strike‚ had much greater consequences. The Homestead strike occurred at the Homestead plant in Pennsylvania when the steel workers were upset about how wages were being set because Carnegie and Frick wouldn’t negotiate. The Homestead Union
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Compare and contrast the Haymarket Riot‚ the Homestead Strike‚ and the Pullman Strike. On balance‚ what was their effect on the organized labor movement? The Haymaker Square riot was an outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4‚ 1886. The American workers were demanded for 8-hour workdays in that time. 1‚500 or so people gathered at Haymarket Square and when police attempted to break up the meeting‚ a bomb exploded and police then opened fire on the crowd. Seven policemen were killed and more than
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thirteen people. Is a taking eight human lives worth it to make a point that you are a strong striker? These angry workers showed no mercy during this riot at Haymarket‚ and the author expresses the true horror of the events that happened. At Homestead‚ when owner Andrew Carnegie went on vacation to his homeland‚ problems arose. Henry Frick who was set in charge‚ was soon to be hated by the workforce at the Carnegie Steel Plant. This was because Frick reduced the wages‚ and built a fence 3 miles
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Suggested topics: The Everglades. The Women’s Suffrage Movement‚ Relocation of Native Americans to Reservations‚ The Dawes Act‚ The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (+5 points of done well)‚ The Civil Rights Amendments‚ Chinese Exclusion Act‚ The Pullman Strike of 1894‚ the Homestead Strike‚ The Invention of the Bessemer Process‚ Haymaker Riot‚ 2. 1 Biographical spotlights: Choose an important person from the Gilded age and explain who they are and how they affected the United States (2 Paragraphs) DUE 11/3-11/5
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What combination of factors resulted in rapid US industrial growth in the late 1800’s? In the late 1800’s the US overtook Great Britain as the world’s largest source of manufactured goods Abundant natural resources o The US was its own source of the raw materials necessary for industrialization o Coal‚ iron ore‚ copper‚ lead‚ timber‚ and oil Abundant labor supply o High immigration between 1865 & 1900 o
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