Important conflicts between business and labor.

By coltonstidham05
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    Important conflicts between business and labor

  • Haymarket Affair

    A bomb explodes at a labor rally, killing 7 police. Four labor leaders are later executed despite lack of evidence

  • Sugar Cane Workers Strike

    Seems to be an act of racially motivated violence in which state militia killed 30 people, majority of which were African-American.

  • Homestead Massacre

    Steel workers strike to protest a wage cut, lead to 7 people being killed in an altercation with state militia.