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Labor in American History
A trend over time is that whenever unions get out of control the government comes in and intervenes. -
First Women's Union
Shoemakin women from Lynn, Massachusetts had created a new the first ever labor union for women at the national level. -
Knights of Labor
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a private organization was created called the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor.(date established unspecified) -
Great Railroad Strike
In march, there was a strike of over 200,000 railroad laborers against the Uniom Pacific and Missoiri Pacific railroad that were under the ownership of Jay Gould. -
Haymarket Tragety
A bomb went off in Chicago's Haymarket Square in the middle of a protest rally against the death of 4 strikers who were of strike for the 8-hour day. -
Bayview Massacre
2,000 Polish workers left their jobs and met at the Saint Stanislaus Church in Milwaukee, they marched through the city gathering people for their cause. -
Homestead Strike
Pinkerton Guards open fired on Carnegie mill steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike
Two month nation wide strike by coal miners. This almost destoryed the United Mine Workers union. -
American Railway Union
Eugene V. Debs led the American Railway Union in a national strike against the Pullman Company. The strike and the union were broken by a court intervention of federal troops -
Anthracite Coal Strike
147,000 miners strike over union recognition, 14 miners died and 22 were wounded in Pana, Illinois. President Roosevelt mediated. -
Western Federation of Miners
(WMF) was led by Big Bill Haywood through a series of conflicts spanning two years in what became the Colorado Labor Wars. -
Ludlow Massacre
A group of army thugs hired form the Balwin-Felts agency, being backed up by the National Guard, open fired of a strikers' tent village at Ludlow, Colorado, killing men, women, and children. -
Wagner Act
The National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Act, was passed by FDR. It would help labor unions and provoke collective bargaining. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was passed. -
FLSA
The Fair Labor Standards Act was drafted by senator Hugo Black. This act would set a minimum wage. Also, it made it that overtime hours would be paid 1,5 times as much. It set the age limit to work at sixteen and at 18 for dangerous jobs. -
Taft-Hartley
President Truman vetod the Taft-Hartley Act, which overrode his vehivke and passed. This was an amendment to the Wagner Act of 1935 and it made unions harder to make for workers.
