General strike

low pay, little to none benefits, even though they often worked 10 to 12 hours, up to 6 days a week. The primary focus of the Knight of Labor was to enforce shorter work days and proper treatment of workers. What happened next, no one saw coming. Strikes were a common thing in the 1880s as a cry out for help among many frustrated workers. American specialists had started sorting out into unions taking after the Civil War, and by the 1880s a large number were composed into unions, most…

Most of these strikes spark everywhere and most end disastrously. Usually a strike would end once the police troops shows up and shots are fired. In the Knights of Labor’s case, the exact same situation occurred at their second railroad strike. The KOL did not believe in strikes and boycotts but educating corporations about the betterment of these changes. Their first movement was deemed a success…

they weren't as affective in the late 1800s due to: the disunity among labor societies, the negative view upon organized labor, and the fact that strikes…

“injunctions”, and these injunctions wouldn’t allow the workers to strike or picket. As effective as the Norris LaGuardia Act was it was still a federal law and employers would still seek injunctions in It also forbade Yellow Dog contracts, which are contracts between an employee and an employer in which the employee agrees, as a condition of the contract, not to join a…

The movement began in 1877, when Workingmen’s Party in Chicago started a general strike beginning July 25, for the support of the eight-hour movement. But with the busy streets of the Haymarket square in Chicago, thousands of strikers were beaten and attacked into submission by the United States Army infantrymen and police with fixed bayonets. The bloody suppression of of the 1877 strike caused another of the Haymarket martyrs, upholsterers August Spies, to join an armed worker’s…

a major subject matter that has separated our country into two separate political parties. Whether, unions are practical and mandatory for our economy, or just another conflict added to the list of problems our country already has. Although, the general opinion of part of today’s labor unions have become redundant and can eventually be risky, labor unions of the Glided Age were necessary. Providing evidence of merits, personal bias, and political views to support the idea of the unsafe and…

persuaded by corporate leaders to rule most strikes and unions illegal. In situations like the “Homestead Strike of 1892”, the “Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers” (AAISW) successful got rid of the scabs and Pinkertons who came to the steel plants in Homestead, Pennsylvania. However, because Carnegie’s right-hand man Henry C. Frick was stern with the labor unions and had connections, federal troops were ordered to come in three days after the strike broke out to disperse the union…

One such union, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), with Samuel Gompers as its leader, managed to intimidate the Knights bringing an end to their union. An official demonstration day was designated for May 1, 1886, as a general nationwide strike for workers. The strike stretched for the duration of the week, and on May 4 1886 a riot erupted at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. What began as a peaceful demonstration soon evolved into a devastating massacre. Led by a German Socialist, Albert…

Striking Gridiron Striking Gridiron is a book written by Greg Nicholas and it tells about a football team in the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania . During this time was one of Americas biggest labor stoppages in history. Many workers went on strike, and with no money coming in they looked to their football team, the Braddock Tigers. This team was very talented and was looking for their 6th undefeated season and so were all the steel workers because they bet their last dollars on this team in hopes…

populace being on the security agreements for Union. In response to war, this bill on labor relations had a perspective of viewing hence being a response by business entities to the Post-WWII upsurge of the labor dating back in the year 1946.There were strikes by more than 5 million populace from America after V-J day that lasted averagely four times longer than those scourged the…