Roosevelt also went after the J. Pierpont Morgan the owner of the railroad company. “Morgan controlled a railroad company known as Northern Securities. In combination with railroad Moguls James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, Morgan controlled the bulk of railroad shipping across the northern United States”(ushistory 1).Theodore knew this was going to be a horrible company that can take advantage of the…
I am doing The Great Railroad Strike started on July 14 , 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia in response to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It’s also known as the Great Upheaval. The great railroad strike started after the Baltimore and Ohio cut wages of railroads and that was basically the biggest event that happened leading up to the great railroad strike. That’s the biggest reason why this strike happened and lots of people were unhappy with this strike. During the great railroad strike there was lots of gun battles.…
Robbie Flak was a defense lawyer who grew up in Slone, Texas. He was the son of a well respected lawyer who built up a reputation that afforded Robbie his start. He worked with his father but soon began to leave the realm of corporate law to deal with the injustices of society. His black hair and perpetual scowl gave him the appearance of anger and irritation, which his drinking habits only served to heighten. He was in a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, but has uncertain feelings for Martha Handler, a member of his law firm.…
He makes it his mission to stay dominant, he owns the only rail bridge that connects other lines into New York so he shuts it down, it is the busiest port in America. Millions of cargo unable to go in and out of New York, this breaks his competitors. The Commodore will now take control of his former rivals railroad, he has now created the largest railroad company in America. The country is now tied together in ways that were unimaginable 15 years earlier, and he provided 180,000 jobs. Without him, America's transportation and industrial economy may have not been what it is today.…
The Populist Party, also known as the People’s Party, was largely made up of workers who sought to bring power to the common man. The party was largely agrarian but also contained many miners and members of labor unions. These people were forward-looking because of their desire to reform and the fact that they embraced change. They were liberal reformers that desired fairer treatment as big business flourished. The populists sought to bring about change by raising the price of crops, fixing the rate of railroads, and combating the general debt and financial hardship of the common worker.…
“Life can get hard and things can go wrong, but no matter what, you've got to stay strong.”(-Unknown) Not many people have heard of Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis, but the people that have, have been amazed by his story of perseverance, which caused him to break the social norms in America in the 60’s and 70’s. Clarence, known by his close family and friends as ‘Skip,’ was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. He was born into a family filled with poverty being one of five children being raised by a single mother. The streets of the Southside of Chicago were full of gang violence and all out war, but he kept to himself, which helped him survive and avoid that kind of stuff.…
The strike then ended when the workers got a 10% wage raise and the hours were reduced from 10 to 9 hours per day. The other presidents did not participate in any dispute of the people, making Roosevelt one of a kind for his remarkable actions in this…
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 became the first nationwide strike, which was caused by the wages being cut. It had occurred during the depression of 1870s, which made it more difficult for the workers. The strike reached to a serious point where federal troops had to be brought in and fired upon the strikers. Close to 100 people died in this strike. The image and reputation of the labor unions plummeted in the public’s eye.…
An immediate reaction to most strikes that caused civil unrest was to send the military to put down the troublemakers, as mentioned above in the Reading strike, although their presence would bring retaliation if it didn’t put down the strikers (Doc 2.) At this time in history, the courts in the United States sided with the companies and the wealthy. After a strike on the Pullman railroad company, the courts had sent out an order that had forbidden any activity “that would have the effect of inducing or persuading men to withdraw from the service of the [Pullman] company, or that in any manner… interfere with the [railroads’] operation...” effectively disabling the unions. As described by Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union, this action demoralized and broke up the union ranks, as they couldn’t perform their duties, and stopped the strikes in a way no army could (Doc…
Roosevelt became known as a trust-buster, but nevertheless, he was more concerned with increasing the power of the presidency rather than tearing down monopolies. Roosevelt later continued to weaken the power of businesses with the Anthracite Coal Strike. This represented the first time in history where the government decided to side with the labor force, threatening to seize and operate corporations. Also, the Committee of Commerce developed, which settled disputes between labor and helped to break up monopolies. After his loss in the Election of 1912, Roosevelt announced a ‘New…
Sometime the strikes lasted a long time and of course when people go on strikes against their employers, they don’t usually go back to work unless they get what the asked for. Some strikes were by people who were bold, determined, and had huge sympathy for a large part of their community (Doc B). Different type of labor unions back then were too busy to even notice what was going on with the workers. They were to busy fighting against each other because there was a huge labor interest back then so they would miss out on what was going on with the workers that were already working (Doc F). Some of the strikes that the workers went on were deadly.…
He would no longer deal with labor unions. When strikebreakers were brought in, an altercation ensued between them and the unionists; sixteen men were killed. Across the nation, civilians ands newspapers alike sympathized with the…
This hurt the owners more than the workers because nothing was being produced to bring in money to their company while it was locked up. For example in in SQ1 Source E “One Big Union” Solidarity, 1917 it shows the working class coming to fight together over the unfairness they have been…
Other railways back down, if they gave back the pay, people that worked on the railroad would lose their jobs. Most of them did not want their fellow workers to lose their job. As the strike went on most business closed early to avoid looting? In their stores, many cities proclaimed proclamation to try to help control the crowd of people that were protesting. So, by July 24, 1877 most freight trains had stopped moving across the United States.…
Bruce Watson, author of the book Bread and Roses explains to the reader an overview of a strike caused in Lawrence, Massachusetts by textile workers in 1912. Immigrant workers who came from all sorts of lands such as Italy, Ireland and Germany and many more started working in Mill working areas. They came to America for the American Dream. Sadly, these immigrants were working in horrible working conditions. These conditions led workers to die or grow sick.…