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The Progressive Era
Lecture 1
Groups Representing Workers
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Administrative
• Exam Reminder– Next quiz Feb 27– Mid-term March 19
• Reading for Next Time– Also have look at web pages on the Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire and on the IWW
• Essay Reminder – March 12
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Review
• Nature of the new craft unionism – pure and simple unionism
• Origins and Founding of the American Federation of Labor – voluntarism
• The world of workers, 1880-1900
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Today
I- The Winds of Reform
II- Leading Groups Representing Worker Interests
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I. Winds of Reform
• National Efforts to control trusts and railroads
• Currency reform
• Efforts to reduce tariffs
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The Muckrakers
• Lincoln Steffens exposed corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government
• Ida Tarbell published a devastating expose' of Standard Oil Co.
• Thomas Lawson exposed practices of stock speculators
• David Phillips in 1906 charged 75 of the 90 U.S. Senators represented railroad and trust interests rather than the people
• Upton Sinclair exposed the meat industry
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Impact
• Lowered public esteem for business
• Increased public and political support for regulation of business including regulation of the work place
• Increased public and political support for worker organizations, i.e. unions
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Impact – Labor Protective Legislation
• LaFollette Seamen’s Act - 1915
• Owens-Keating Act - 1916
• Adamson Act -1916
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II. Leading Groups Representing Worker Interests
• The American Federation of Labor
• The Socialist Party
• The Industrial Workers of the World
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American Federation of Labor
• No business group was more politically conservative
• Continued to support craft unionism and voluntarism
• Supported the war effort and worked with the Wilson Administration
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The Socialist Party
• Many Socialist Groups
• Socialist Labor Party– Daniel DeLeon– Marxist
• Socialist Party– Eugene V. Debs– Believed in achieving power through the ballot
box
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Socialist Party
• Didn’t have much use for exclusive craft unionism
• Advocated industrial style unionism
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The Industrial Workers of the World: The Wobblies
• Founded in Chicago in 1905• Soon broke apart into factions• Plenty of charismatic and able leaders to
go around• Included Debs, DeLeon, and Big Bill
Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners
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IWW Philosophy
• Various factions ranged from mildly liberal to extreme left
• Direct Action – economic and industrial action to eliminate capitalism
• Syndicalism – One Big Union
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IWW
• Never terribly large membership
• Most successful at organizing low skilled workers whose work isolated them from the mainstream of society
• Even branch established in Australia
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Demise of the IWW
• The only worker group to actively oppose the war
• Imperial Wilhelm’s Warriors• In context of war-time chauvinism, IWW
members frequently attacked and beaten and often jailed
• Many states passed anti-syndicalism laws• Tactics like industrial unionism and sit-
down strikes foreshadowed the 1930s
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Next Time
• Injunctions
• Worker Health and Safety: The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
• Legislative changes
• Workers during WWI
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The Progressive Era
Lecture 2
Triangle Shirt Waist Fire and Injunctions and Workers in World War I
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Administrative
• Essay Reminder
• Exam Reminder – quiz next class
• Hand out Definitions
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Review
• Impact of the muckrakers and the atmosphere of reform
• Groups seeking to represent the interests of workers– American Federation of Labor– The Socialist Party– The Industrial Workers of the World
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Today
I. Impact of Radicalism
II. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Worker Health and Safety
III. Development of the Labor Injunction
IV. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
V. Workers During the War
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I. Impact of Radicalism
• Much that we take for granted now was the work of socialists, syndicalists, anarchists and marxists in an earlier time period
• Many people fought, devoted their lives and died for these concepts
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I. Un-American Socialist Policies espoused by Debs
• Abolition of child labor
• Right of women to vote
• Progressive income tax
• Employer liability laws
• National department of education
• Pensions for both men and women
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II. The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire and Worker Health and Safety
• March 25, 1911
• Where was the factory?
• Worst industrial fire in U.S. history, 146 young women died
• Why?
• What changes did the government make afterward?
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III. Development of the Labor Injunction
• Why issue an injunction?
• In principle, the idea is to preserve the status quo and thus not to prejudice claims of either party while merits of case heard
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Development of the Labor Injunction
• First used in the 1880s
• First use by federal court was in the Pullman Strike of 1894
• Became the dominant employer tool in strike situations
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Use of the Labor Injunction
• Many courts issued them on an almost automatic basis
• Ex parte
• In Re Debs, the Supreme Court held that courts could enjoin strikes to prevent irreparable damage to the employer’s expectation of future profits
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Use of the Labor Injunction
• Frequently issued to prevent inducement to breach of contract
• Many state courts held closed shop illegal objective and enjoined strikes in support of it on grounds workers had no direct interest in it
• Similarly Secondary Activities frequently held illegal and enjoined
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IV. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Attempt to limit application of anti‑trust to unions and limit use of injunctions in labor disputes
• Provisions– Labor not a commodity or article of commerce
‑ perhaps intended to imply that control of labor market not restraint of trade
– Anti‑trust policy cannot prevent unions from lawfully carrying out their legitimate functions
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IV. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Duplex v. Deering S.C. 1921
• The Law of Duplex– Injunctions can still be issued routinely by
courts in labor disputes – Anti‑trust can still be applied to routine union
activities
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V. Workers During the War
• A.F.L. and mainstream of labor movement completely loyal to the war effort
• Established National War Labor Board
• A.F.L. won de facto recognition from the government
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Workers During the War
• Socialist Party condemned the war
• Party attacked under the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act
• Its publications were banned from the mail
• Leaders indicted including Debs
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Workers During the War
• Growing number of women joined the union movement
• Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe also joined unions in record numbers
• African-Americans typically still not welcome, even in the north
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Next Time
• Quiz
• Labor Protective Legislation
• Begin Movie
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The Progressive Era
Lecture 3
Protective Legislation
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Administrative
• Reading for next topic
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Review
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Development of Labor Injunctions
• Injunctions and Anti-trust Policy
• Workers during the war
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Today
I. Immediate Post-war Period
II. Sacco Vanzetti Trial - film
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I. Immediate Post-war Period
• 1919 Strike wave of unprecedented proportions in period of Red Scare
• Post‑Russian‑Revolution hysteria
• Setting of the strike wave in this period molded public attitudes even though A.F.L. was easily as Anti‑Communist as the National Association of Manufacturers
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Immediate Post-War Period
• Growing interest among workers in political action
• Growth of labor parties in many states
• In 1919 split in Socialist Party that eventually produced the Communist Party
• Palmer raids on radical groups
• Movie on Sacco and Vanzetti trial
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1919 Boston Police Strike
• Caused when police commissioner fired officers for union activity
• Argued unionism incompatible with loyalty required of police officers
• Strike broken by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge– Called Massachusetts Guard– Strikers fired– Replaced by returning soldiers who received higher
pay, more holidays and free uniforms
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Employer Views
• Continued to oppose unionism
• In war period, Western Union fired 800 employees for union activity
• After the war, employers launched a new anti-union offensive
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Next Time
Finish film