Congress of Industrial Organizations

alcohol to treat bronchitis and other conditions was one and also industrial-grade alcohol which was designed for use in paints and floor thinners. Although these forms of alcohol were either undrinkable in large amounts or undrinkable at all, industrial-grade alcohol was commonly stolen and resold to consumers without warning. Burton states, “The week of Christmas, 1926, almost a hundred people died from the effects of drinking industrial alcohol. Hundreds more died in subsequent years,”…

Between the 1700s and 1800s rural farm life began to turn into industrial city life. Farming and small industries began to evolve into bigger businesses. New and improved farming methods allowed landowners to make more money to invest in industries. New machinery in farming meant that less people farmed and more people got jobs in the city. This lead to an increase in investments in industry and the making of bigger and more powerful machinery. Factory owners hired workers to work the machines…

support the collective bargaining rights; it did also benefited the industrial workers. The industrial workers benefited by the PC 1003 by achieving its bargaining objectives. The workers in various industries such as auto, steel , rubber and mining were given less importance, did not have right for the union recognition, were hired for the low wages. These industrial workers faced with the low standard of living. Thus the industrial workers benefited by the PC 1003 by achieving its bargaining…

enforced to make America a safer and friendlier nation to all its citizens. To end the initial problem of slavery, the 13th amendment was ratified. This legally ended the struggle for many previously enslaved African Americans. It was ratified by Congress just months before the end of the war and was backed by President Lincoln as a way to effectively end the war through making slavery illegal. Shortly after the Civil War ended, the new amendment was ratified in all states of the Union. This…

and equal rights, there were numerous negative effects on the suffragists because of it. Suffragists then had to live their lives alongside this movement, which caused issues for their own marriages. Many suffragists were arrested for what the organization was doing, as well. Politicians of the time were extremely biased, and believed women should just stay home and let the men take care of them, causing a…

of money for Presidents, State Senators, and State Representatives. PAC’s are allowed to contribute $5,000 in primary, general, or special election cycles to a candidate (Gill, n.d.). The origin of PAC’s dates back to 1955, when the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was formed. According to Gill, there were 4,268 in 1998 and corporations accounted for 43% of all PACs; non-connected PACs accounted for 26% (Gill, n.d.) In 2008 there were reported 4,234 (Gill, n.d.). During the 2012…

This started a move against collective bargaining in the United States as a result restriction of court reponses to union activity and the rights of employees to form labor organizations and to be protected against unfair labor practices at the hands of employees. Employees held all the power until 1932 when the Norris-LaGuardia Act and the Wagner Act of 1935 was enacted in the United States. The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 was…

staggered from a race uproar the prior year in Springfield, Illinois, the city in which Lincoln had once lived. Eight blacks were executed and handfuls harmed as crowds of whites rampaged through the dark group decimating homes, property, and organizations, constraining thousands to escape. After the uproar, an Englishman by the name of William English Walling portrayed how…

walls. Their society changed because it was discovered that there was oil within their country (Kalu Ogbaa). Compared to the United States, the first major breakthrough of electricity occurred in 1831 and, with this, formed a multitude of other industrial revolution breakthroughs throughout the country (Michael…

as industrial production fell and many Americans were left unemployed and the banks themselves were going down because of the loans that Americans took out and accounts even began to shaken. It really hurt the economy during that time period but Franklin Roosevelt had a plan to change all that and compensate for the loss. The New Deal were a set of laws that Roosevelt and Congress created that would help in banking failures, agriculture, business, and unemployment.…