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An organization made of all kinds of people that wanted working conditiond to be improved by the government not by workers arguing with buisnesses. One of their major ideals was the eight hour work day.
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An organization that essencially wanted equal work rights for african americans as white men. This including pay, hours and working condition.
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An early labor union that invited all people, skilled and unskilled, no matter what race or gender to join. They wanted things such as an eight hour work day, ending of child labor and equal pay for equal work.
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An "umbrella organization for other unions", they orginally only allowed skilled workers and didn't beleive in violence in order to get a message across.
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During a rally to protest against the police who shot a protestor the day before, the police tried to break it up when a bomb was thrown at them. They then tpulled open fire on the crowd.
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Being the Counrty's first major rail road strike, wages were cut immensly due to the economy of the time. Workers got fed up and quit until wages increased.
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Frick took things out of control by lockin the workers in after thier attempt to argue over the fact that they could no longer communicate through unions. It ended in violence.
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A union for railroad workers. One big thing that they fought for was higher wages, or for at least the wages to stop being cut.
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After many wage cuts in the Pullman buisness, the ARU decided that its workers will no longer work on any cars belonging to Pullman
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An organization with many unskilled laborers and others minorities such as women and even children that worked to solve problems with working conditions such as shorter hours, better pay and safer conditions.
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An eleven week strike of New York's Shirtwaist Industry.It consisted of mostly young women that were completely unhappy with their conditions.
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A fire in the Trianlge Shirtwaist Factory caused the death of 146 workers, mostly women. They could not escape because they were locked in by employers and so many jumped to their deaths from nine stories.
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A union wanting to organize unskilled factory workers. They wanted political action and worked with radicals and African Americans.
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The merging of AFL and CIO. For quite some time they have worked to keep working conditions ideal for the American peopl.