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the first national union.
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a massachusetts court ruled that umions were legal.
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the first major union was founded by uriah stephens, a philadelphia tailer. its membership of nine thousand womenafrican americans, immigrants, both skilled and unskilled.
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founded by samuel gompers, organized skilled workers by crafts. they fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved woring conditions through collective bargaining.
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steel workers in homestead, pennslyvania struck against the carnegie steel plant because the company had reduced wages, it became violent when the steel company hired private police to protect strike breakers.
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manufactured sleeping and dining cars, went on strike because their wages had been cut. acting out of sympathy for the pullmen workers, conductors and engineers of the american railway union refused to handle trains with pullmen cars attached. a federal judge ordered the strikers back to work and when they refused, president grover cleveland sent in federal troops. the ensuing violence turned public opinion against the strikers, and their president, eugene debs, was jailed.
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for unskilled workers and immigrants, advocated one large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals as oppesed to more peaceful american federation of labor.
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allowed picketing and limited the use of of injunctions in labor disputes
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protected the rights of the workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining.
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established a minimum wage (25cent an hour) and time and a half for over time!
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an amendment to the fair labor actprohibited child labor
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the ALF and CIO merged
