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Kinights of Labor founded
Uriah Stephens forms the knights of labor
Secret soceity, to organize workers around the country under management -
Railway strike
a strike against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad ignites a series of strikes across northeast.
Federal troops were called out for the first time over a labor dispute
The strike gets crushed, but it also shows how bad the arguements between workers and owners can get -
Haymarket riot
Labor rally at the Haymarket square in chicago, support of the 8hr day.
unknown party tosses a bomb at police , who the fired into the crowd -
Sherman Antitrust Act
was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies
enacted by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts -
homestead strike
300 pinkerton hired by the company arrives at mills by borge.
workers picketing the plant, shoot the pinkertons when they arrived on the boat.
about 7 pinkertons and 11 union members died. -
Wagner Act of 1935
this bill was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
It established the National Labor Relations Board
and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector. -
slave labor act
It allowed states to pass "right-to-work"
Huge strike wave in 1946 turned public opinion against unions
