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Uriah Stephens forms the knights of labor
Secret soceity, to organize workers around the country under management -
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 -
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 -
was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies
enacted by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts -
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. -
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. -
It allowed states to pass "right-to-work"
Huge strike wave in 1946 turned public opinion against unions
