1. Labor Movement

2. Strike
Work Stoppage
A group’s refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

3. Injunction To order back to work
Usually a President orders an injunction if the good of the nation is effected

4. National Labor Union (NLU)
Legalized 8-hour work day for government workers

5. Knights of Labor 8-hour workday for all workers
Equal pay for men and women
Did not discriminate against race, gender, or degree of skill

6. American Federation of Labor
Led by Samuel Gompers
Include skilled workers from more than one trade
Used strikes as a major tactic (higher wages and shorter workweek)

7. American Railway Union
Took all of those involved with the railroad trade

8. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies
A group of radical men/women
They want to change capitalism to socialism
Not very successful but did give dignity to unions

9. International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
Won labor agreements and better working conditions
Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory led people to ignore such conditions

10. Create a Bar Graph 1899 Women $267 Men $498 1904 Women $289 Men $540
Annual earnings for men and women

11. Identify the following:
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The Great Strike Haymarket Affair
Homestead Act Pullman Company Strike
Mother Jones Eugene Debs
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory