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Poor Factory conditions
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12 hours days
6 day weeks no vacation no unemployment compensation or reinmbursement for injuries |
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Poor Conditions in factory
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dirty, poorly ventilated
dull, repetitve tasks, dangerous, faulty equipment |
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Was there child labor?
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Yes
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What did National Labor Union win?
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8 hour day legalized for government workers
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Uriah Stephens
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Knights of Labor which was open to all regardless to race or gender or skill level
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How did the Knights of Labor feel about strikes?
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They would rather do arbitration
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Samuel Gompers
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President of American Federation of Labor focused on collective bargaining,
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Panic of 1893
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Worse depression up to that time with 600 banks and 15,000 businesses failing
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Eugene V. Debs
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head of the American Federation of Labor
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William Haywood
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Industrial Workers of the World
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Great Strike of 1877
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Rutherford B. Hayes uses federal troops to end the B & O Railroad strike
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Mary Harris Jones
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Native of Ireland. Led children's march in 1903
organized for the United Mine Workers of America |
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Haymarket Affair
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Strike at the McCormick Harvester plant with police also killed
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Homestead Strike
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this strike had Pinkerton detectives battling against striking steelworkers
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Pinkertons
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armed guards hired to protect factories from striking workers
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Scabs
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replacement workers for strikers
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Pullman strike
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strike at this railroad car plant over decreased wages and high rents
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Pauline Newman
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At age 16 she became an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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fire here killed 146 women in the garment industry
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Yellow-dog contracts
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a worker swearing he would not join a union
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