Strikes & Labour Violence
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- Created on: 07-05-13 21:30
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- Strikes & Labour Violence
- Plight of the workers
- A series of photographs taken by Jacob Riis (muckraker) showing their hard lives
- Industrialisation was bound to rouse opposition from the workers aswell as the farmers
- The Socialist Party
- Formed in 1877
- Riven by dissen, some broke away to form the Social Democrat Party
- TRied to help the workersbut trade unions did more
- Never did aswell as in Europe (1912 Eugene Debs 6%)
- Importance of Unions
- Knights of Labor Union
- The 8 Hour Day
- Poor organisation & negotiations
- Dominant untill 1886 Haymarket bombing
- American Federation of Labour
- Samuel Gompers 1886
- Willing to use strikes/boycotts for collective bargaining
- Gompers - accused of gaining benefits for skilled workers at expense of unskilled, against political action
- Industrial Workers of the World
- 1905
- Radical and openly socialist
- Knights of Labor Union
- Strikes
- Caused public hysteria
- Blamed on immigrants
- 1903 - Immigration Act prohibits the immigration of "anarchists"
- "yellow dog" contracts - signed by employees to ensure they do not strike/join a union
- Law supported the employers
- Supreme Court legalised injunctions against unions
- Haymarker Massacre 1886
- Chicago Police attempted to break up a peacefull dmeonstration by factory workers
- A bomb was thrown and 8 policemen died and many civillians
- Untitled
- 8 strikers were condemed to death (4 died and 1 comitted suicide in prision)
- Strikes
- Caused public hysteria
- Blamed on immigrants
- 1903 - Immigration Act prohibits the immigration of "anarchists"
- "yellow dog" contracts - signed by employees to ensure they do not strike/join a union
- Law supported the employers
- Supreme Court legalised injunctions against unions
- Plight of the workers
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