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Labor Movement
Essential QuestionWhat were the strategies used by
organized labor and why were some strikes successful when others failed?
Knights of Labor
founded in 1878by Terrence V. Powderlymembership open to all workers
skilled & unskilledmen & womenall races, religions, & ethnic
groups
Goals of Knights8 hour dayend to child laborend to convict laborequal pay for women &
minoritiessafety codes for workplacenationalization of RR &
telegraph
Haymarket Square, 1886 May Day
demonstration for 8 hour day
Strike at McCormick reaper factory, Chicago
May 4th rally in Haymarket Square
3000 attend
Bomb thrown--7 policemen dead
Police fire on crowd—12 dead
Newspapers blame unions
8 anarchist arrested & charge with instigation
4 hanged, 1 suicide, 3 jailed then acquitted
Destroyed Knights of Labor
United Mine Workersfounded by John L LewisGoals:
8 hour dayend child labor in minessafety codes for mineshealth care for workers with
“Black Lung”
American Railway Union founded by Eugene
Debs, 1893sought to unite all
workers on Railroads
wanted shorter hours & better wages
Debs jailed during Pullman Strike
IWW: IndustrialWorkers of the World founded in 1905 lead by Big Bill Haywood
also Joe Hill & Mary Harris “Mother” Jones revolutionaries
Lawrence Textile Mill Strike“Bread & Roses”
AFL: American Federation of Labor
founded 1881by Samuel Gompers
full-time union officials to...organize, negotiate, control strikes
skilled workers onlyno women or minorities