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Great Strike
The Great Strike on the B&O
Railroad. The second wage was cut and work stopped for a week. This event was positive because it stopped the company from cutting wages -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress banned
Chinese entry expect to students, tourists, and politicians -
Japanese Recruitment
Hawaiian planters recruited Japanese workers. And gave Japanese jobs and started their immigration into
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A.F.L Samuel Gompers only allowing skilled workers
A.F.L. Samuel Gompers founder of this labor union allowing only skilled workers to join. That later became one of the best known unions. -
Haymarket Affair
this affair gave the unions bad reputations because of the riots that happened and it happened after a bombing -
Failing jobs
leaving men, women, immigrants and children with no labor union and less jobs only created more problems for the ones at the top -
Pullman company’s failing wages
The Pullman company fails to restore wages, which leads to a major decrease in rent. -
Steamstresses Strike
Seamstresses Strike won labor agreements and improved working conditions, the public could no longer ignore working conditions and change was finally happening. -
Triangle Shirtwaist factory disaster
Triangle Shirtwaist factory caught on fire and 146 women died this was the initiative to set up regulations and make working safer.