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The first national union.
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a massachusetts court ruled that unions were legal.
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founded by Samuel Gompers, organized skilled workers by crafts. They fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions through collective bargaining.
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became violent when the steel company hiredprivate police to protect strike breakers. In ensuing confrontation, nine strikers and several police officers were killed.
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For unskilled workers and Immagrants, advocatedone large national union that would use strikes and sabotage to achieve its goals, as opposed to the more peaceful American Fedaration of Labor.
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allowed picketing and limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes.
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protected the rights of workers to organize and elect representatives for collective bargaining.
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established a minimum wage and time and a half for over forty hours of work a week.
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Merged in 1955
