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newspapers in the late 1890’s. Both of the newspapers had coverage of the Pullman Strike available to their readers. The Pullman Strike is an event in Illinois history where workers chose to walk out of their occupations due to the environment. The depression made the worker’s wages get cut by twenty-five percent. This cut was the cause of workers to have an enormous amount of stress, eventually leading to a strike against the corporation. As the public would expect, there was bias present in…

Politics aside, 1919 was also a year of a number of huge scales social protests and riots. The Seattle General Strike, for one, was a five days strike of workers demanding a higher wage. The strike first started with about 35,000 participants but had grown to 60,000 by the time it ended on January 16th. Although no violence was involved throughout the whole protest, the Seattle General Strike was, however, considered by many as a radical attempt of overthrowing the US institution. Another…

The first repercussion of the strike was the destruction of PATCO. At the beginning of the strike, a federal court impounded PATCO’s $3.5 million strike fund and another federal judge imposed fines totaling $4.75 million on the union.On AUgust fourth judge Thomas C. Platt in New York fined PATCO $100,000 per hour for defying a 1970 injunction against striking. The President of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland expressed outrage at Reagan, who was described as ‘union busting’ by labor leaders. It was…

The 1800s was a rough century. They had a war going on, a lot of strikes, and death. But right after the war was over people started reconstructing America. During the reconstruction there were more jobs available and there were labor unions forming to help with employment. But the labor unions didn’t really work that well because what they care about is pay, worker’s safety, and work hours The workers didn't get much of any of that. They said that their safety was terrible, they didn’t get paid…

A strike is a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. (www.dictionary.com). The Winnipeg General Strike killed the city in a couple of hours where movement was postponed because of the lack of workers. The strike was historically significant because of its events and also because of it’s before and after effects. The following essay will demonstrate how in all of Canadian history, with…

when people go on strike, you don't have anyone to teach you or to take you to school. This is why I believe that service workers shoul not be allowed to go on strike. First off, these strikes can frustrate the public and make them dislike you and possibly leave. Secondly, there is no guarantee that the employer will meet the demands of the strike. Lastly, if you go on strike your employers has a legal right to hire replacements and put you out of work. First off, going on a strike can make the…

Power of Determination In his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck illustrates the struggle between the working class and the upper class through the discrimination between the migrants and the landowners. Landowners maintain control through violence; they treat migrant workers without humanity. Migrant families, often referred as “Okies,” are starving, while food is wasted by the wealthy. In the novel, many migrants lose their homes, jobs and life savings, forcing them to move and leave…

The setting of The Grapes of Wrath sets the stage for the struggles and the change the Joad family has to face. The drought of the 1930s forces the Joads to leave everything they know and move to California in order to find a better life. The Joad family has a clue to what awaits them at their destination nor do they know what awaits them on the long journey itself. The author, John Steinbeck, develops three dynamic characters - Ma Joad, Tom Joad, and Jim Casy - to illustrate three similar, but…

the Bible. The uniqueness of people to have no repeated DNA strands, no same fingerprints, and no like thoughts links to the formation of these different denominations and allows for the reading of literature to influence. John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath depicts yet another interpretation of the Bible for readers to see lived out in the setting of The Great Depression. The biblical leader of the Israelites, Moses, showed a strong connection to Rose of Sharon’s dead baby. In the…

In the photo essay “, Farming on the Frontlines in Gaza,” the author Jost Franko discusses the worn-torn farmers of Palestinian farmers and how they deal with growing crops when war is all around them. He talks about how the country’s location impacts them because of the countries ongoing battles. Franko is arguing that these worn-torn countries need protection and support because they are barely surviving in these awful conditions. Franko does a good job at doing this by showing photos of many…