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Thousands of black laundresses went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized.
More than half of the city’s black residents—and half of the black wage earners—were women.
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Protesting police brutality against labor strikes.
Eight people died when someone threw a bomb at police.
Eight labor activists were convicted even with lack of evidence. -
Oposes luck of competition, like monopolies. However, it's not harm "innocent monopoly". This act is also prohibiting the price fixing.
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Protested against long hours and low wages. Unions were threatened to be fired. Were used 'militia'.
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In 1933, the number of labor union members was around 3 million, compared to 5 million a decade before. The highest unemployment rate. Especially, the hard industry was vulnerable.
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Banned yellow-dogs contracts. This Act has outlawed the practice of hiring only workers who agreed not to join the union. This protected the workers self-organization and their liberty.
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Unions at World War II was growing its membership. Reason for that are higher wages, more jobs. More than 3,500 strikes took place through 1941, cutting defense production by 25 percent.
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Congress launched sweeping investigations to weed out Communists in government, labor unions, the entertainment industry and even the army. As a result labor unions were forced to purge anyone who had ever belonged to, or had been sympathetic to, the Communist party.
Labor unions, divided by the domestic crusade of anticommunism, were unable to prevent passage of the Taft-Hartley Act (1947), which strengthened US financial and industrial wealth. -
Prohibited some of the types of strikes, so made it more difficult to the Unions. Also required union officers to sign non-communist affidavits. In result right-to-work laws passed
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Five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners in Colorado. Reasons: low wage and long working day. First strike, where used militia, also was used firefights and dynamite.
