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Big Business vs. Labor
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Rise of Labor Unions
• Work week: 12 hr days, 6 days a week
• No vacation, no sick days, no insurance
• No safety rules, so dangerous work– 1882: 675 work deaths/week– ( ? 2003, 5,500 work deaths ? )
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• 1899: Avg worker: $475/year
• 1899: Carnegie: $23,000,000/year
• 48,421 times his workers’ salary
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Unions Combat Inequality
• 1869: Knights of Labor opened to all workers.
– 8 hr workday
– = pay for men & women
– didn’t want to strike
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• 1886: Samuel Gompers forms American Federation of Labor
– “union of unions”
– Collective bargaining: All workers going for same contract
– Liked to strike
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• 1905: Industrial Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)
– Supported Communism
– Welcomed all races
– Seen as “terrorists”
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Strikes Turn Violent
• Great Strike of 1877
– B&O RR workers strike over wages
– Other RR workers strike, traffic grinds to halt
– Pres. Hayes sends Army to break it up. 18 killed. Blamed on “German agitators!”
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6th Md. I.D. taking aim
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• Haymarket Affair (1886)
– McCormick workers in CHI gather in Haymarket Sq. to protest
– Anarchists detonate a bomb, killing police - police retaliate & attack workers
– Unions HIGHLY discouraged in CHI!
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Harper’s Weekly illustration of the bombing
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• Homestead Strike (1892)– Carnegie workers strike for $$– Company hires security, workers
drive them out– National Guard moves in, 7 die,
many arrested, union breaks– Last major steelworker strike
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PA Natl Guard marching
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Barges torched by union
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Effects of unions
• Positive– Workers that
survived cuts often got raises
– Strikes effected the companies
– Companies began dealing a bit more fairly in hopes of avoiding strikes
• Negative– To pay for the raises,
many were fired– Strikes bankrupted
some companies - cutting all jobs!
– Unions themselves became large, & sometimes got as corrupt as bosses!