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National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations. This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation.
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This is the first railroad labor union. It will protects the rights of all railroad workers in the country.
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The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of the American Federation of Labor, passed a law stating that "8 hours shall become a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886."
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In 1886, the Knights of Labor went on strike at the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. Thousands of workers from five different states refused to work, because of unsafe conditions and unfair hours and pay. The strike suffered from a lack of commitment from other railroad unions, the successful hiring of nonunion workers by Gould and from violence and scare tactics. Eventually, the strike failed and the Knights of Labor disbanded soon afterwards.
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Workers protested in the streets to demand the universal adoption of the eight-hour day. Hundreds of thousands of American workers had joined the Knights of Labor for this movement. But the movement ultimately failed.
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This events was for workers wanting the an 8 hour work day. They were protesting downtown when a bomb got hurled into the crowd. Immediatly after that occured a riot broke out.
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Minors were striking for better pay and the government was not pleased with this happening. So they had police officers shoot and kill 19 people that were striking. But it shifted things more towards the minors, for there next strike Theadore Roosevelt awarded them a political victory.
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It was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony. The tent colony had 1200 striking minors living there with there families. And many were killed may were injured and the whole tent colony burned down.
