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Potato Famine
Potato Famine is also known as the Great Famine, Great Hunger. This was a mass starvation causing diseases and emigration. The potato crop failed in successive. The potato Famine effect labor movement a lot because it was killing a lot of people and a lot of emigrents were moving out of areas, and the people it wasnt killing a lot were going threw sever illness. -
Haymarket Square Riot
Haymarket Square Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration took place in Chicgo at haymarket square.Someone came in, in the middle of a peaceful protest. Throwing a bomd into the middle of the protest. This event effect labor movement because someone was trying to make the union look bad like they were the ones trying to kill innocent people. -
The Pullman Strike
All workers refused to work, causing the railroad union to shut down they refused to work or run any trains. This strike was mostly people fighting for better wages, this affects the labor movement cause if they cant get the people to work they are going have to start looking for emigrants to work so they can get the trains back up and running. -
Great Anthracite Coal Strike
Great Anthracite Coal Strike threatened to create an energy crisis. Seeking better wages and conditions, the union went on strike in eastern Pennsylvania, an area that contained the majority of the nations supply of anthracite coal. This effects labor movement because this place as nobody wanting to work for them but they have the nations biggest supplies so they need this place to be up and sending out coal for energy, ect. -
Ludlow Massacre
Ludlow Massacre was a attack by colorado national guards at a tent coloney. People were living in tents and they game and started firing shots. tents cought of fire killing a lot of adults and childern. This affect labor movement cause it killed a lot of the workers on strike, women, childern. -
flu pandemic
flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.It was a bad outbreak killing about 50,000 people. This affect labor movement a lot killing this man people was a big number of lost labor. And had a lot of them deathly sick weeks and months before they deceaed -
Great Depression
deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States. The Great Depression began after the stock market crash. This affect labor movement cause a lot of people would have been willing to fight over anything and everything. Causing places to not be able to have the best quility of workers. -
The Norris-LaGuardia Act
Couldnt Prohibit workers from joining the unions. This effected Labor Movement because now placed couldnt stopp people from forming a union they could do it if they wanted causeing a lot more places to not have as many working due to going on strike and a lot of them protesting. -
The Wagner Act
The Wagner Act is the workers rights to form unions and strike was protected. This affects labor movement because its works rights. So now the works have a lot more rights then they did being able to stand up for their selfs and a lot of them after putting up with things for so long they were done and going on strike. -
World War II
World War II was the second World War. Related conflicts to this world war began earlier than the war did. The world War began 9/1/1939 and ended 9/2/1945. This effect labor movement because it killed a lot fo people and a lot of people for years were out on the battle field a lot of emigrants couldnt make it over some places to work. -
Walsh-Healy Act
The Walsh-Healy Act was a law passed saying that poeple working cant get paid less than the "prevailing minimum wage" normally paid in a locality; restricted regular working hours to eight hours a day and 40 hours a week, with time-and a half pay for additional hours. Prohibited the employment of convicts and children under 18; and sanitation and safety standards. This effects labor movemnt because now they legally have to pay these people a certain amount and workers have to be atleast 18.
