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Eugene V. Debs organized the Pullman Strike in 1894, a nationwide protest that resulted in federal labor laws to protect workers. The strike brought the economy to a standstill and got President Cleveland to make Labor Day a national holiday.
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She was 16 years old in when she began working, Schneiderman helped organize an all-woman hat-makers union to demand equal pay and standard working hours. That was just the beginning of her lifelong advocacy for workers. She had been a big figure in many movements and Her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and their conversations on labor issues led to Franklin Delano Roosevelent appointing Schneiderman to the National Labor Advisory Board.
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President Grover Cleveland signed the law that Congress passed designating the first Monday in September a holiday for workers. Labor unions pressed and activists sacrificed to gain recognition of both the contributions and the mistreatment of workers at the time. -
In 1907 There was a lot of Japanese workers in agricultural jobs and because they were aware of their importance they would negotiate come harvest season to get paid a lot more, in 1907 they were the best paid workers in California agriculture. Despite this though they faced a lot of discrimination similar to those the Chinese had faced beforehand and as they lost more Japanese workers they started to get more Mexican ones. (it was a cycle of losing and replacing minorities tbh) -
Leader of AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizational Committee) a primarily Filipino organization, He later worked alongside Cesar Chavezas assistant director of UFW
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one of the co-founders of the united farmers association and a well known labor rights activist
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co-founder of the United Farmers association with Cesar Chavez (she is still alive)
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In years Prior many unions and Organizations could get very little done, this year they had managed to negotiate their pay to be 1.35$ but after those fields were picked and they had to move on and try to re-negotiate the growers refused to pay them that much. They eventually agreed to the Idea of a major strike, asking for 1.40$ an hour and an extra 25 cents per box harvested along with recognition of their union. over 1000 workers walked off the job. -
On February 15th Cesar Chavez had started a hunger strike, it lasted 25 days with a catholic mass nearby, and it was all as an attempt to stop the violence against strikers. During this time it got so much attention Robert F Kennedy had flew out to Delano multiple times. During the strike Chavez's life was in danger and he had lost 35 lbs. -
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