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Historical Event #1
Three workers at Dorset were sentenced to death for extorting money and two workers were sentenced to death for robbery by Special Commissions sent by the Whig Ministry to suppress insurgent workers. 55 workers in Norwich were convicted of "machine breaking and rioting" by the Special Commissions sent by the Whig Ministry to suppress insurgent workers. -
Historical Event #2
Carpenters, masons, and stone-cutters began a strike as part of the Ten-Hour movement among skilled workers. They drafted a strike in circular Boston outlining their demands and seeking assistance from other tradespeople. Wherever the circular was distributed, a strike in which workers successfully struck for shorter working hours and higher wages, was influenced by the Boston circular. -
Nationwide Strike/Railroad Strike
Federal Troops broke the strike, workers for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers causes property destruction in many cities. The cause was to cut wages and increase work day. -
Haymarket Riot Strike
The Haymarket Riot happened in Chicago. People were protesting police brutality against labor strikes, and a bomb was thrown. The causes were: they wanted and 8hr workday. 8 policemen died. 8 labor activists were convicted with lack of evidence. -
The Homestead Strike
A Carnegie steel plat cut worker's wages. Henry Frick brought in pinkertons which was a private police force who broke up strikes. The strike lasts two weeks, the pinkertons killed many people and a anarchist who tried to assassinate Frick, they called off the strike. Effect: steel workers unions lost power through the country, the strike was an epidemic of steel workers and miners in the economic spread -
Historical Event #3
Pullmon strike (May 11-July 10th) Nationwide strike against the Pullman company began with a walkout after wages were cut. On July 5th the World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, Chicago was burnt down plus seven other buildings. -
Pullman Strike
Pullman Palace Car Co. cut worker wages by 25%. Grover Cleveland sent federal troops and ended the strike. -
Norris LaGuardia Act
One of the initial federal labor laws in favor of organized labor. It was enacted in 1932 to prevent employers from hiring a worker under the influence they will NOT join a labor union. -
Fair Labor Standard Act
FSLA introduced 40 hr work week, established national minimum wage, "time and a half" overtime, employment of minors -
Right to Work Law
Prohibits union security agreements, or agreements between employers and labor unions