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the first national unit
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massechusetts court ruled that unions were disputes
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won several important strikes but their influence declined after they were blamed for killing 7 police officers who attempted to break up a meeting in Haymark Square, Chicago
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organized skilled workers by crafts. improved working conditions through collective bargaining
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striking McCormick Harvestor Workers clashed with police, 4 strikers were killed
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improve wages and working conditions of coal mine workers
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steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania struck against the Carnegie Steel plant because the company had reduced wadges
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railroad fireman Eugene V. Debs
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manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike because their wages had been cut
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unskiled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals as opposed to the more peaceful American Federation of Labor
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allowed picketing and limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes
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Philip Randolph created it
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(wagner act) protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining.
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established a minimum wage (25 cents an hour) and time and a half for over 40 hours of work a week
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prohibited child labor
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merged
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striking in violation of a no-strike clause in their contract (ronald reagan fired)
