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Sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform.
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Wanted to subdivide southern public land to give african americans some acreage
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Their goal was to organise all workers into one single union.
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The first major railroad strike. Salaries and wages were cut which led to violence and strikes
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they seeked to get decent wages, safe working conditions, and limit the number of hours of work per day.
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It began as a rally in support of striking workers but someone threw a bomb at the police who began firing and killed eachother and some strikers with their shots.
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They were dedicated to uniting all rail road workers into one working force
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Started after workers walked out of Pullman Palace Car Company after failing negotations over the decreased wages.
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Their goal is to abolish the wage system
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More than 20,000 women walked out over an 11 week strike.
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killed 146 garment workers, mostly women because they were unable to get out of the building due to the owners locking the fire escape doors so that the women wouldnt steal from the factory.
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The CIO was a federation of unions that organised workers in industrial unions in the U.S. and Canada.
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a merger in 1955 brought the two unions: the AFL and CIO together.