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1 #3 - Do now: What messages does this cartoon want to convey?
ONE SEES HIS FINISH UNLESS GOOD GOVERNMENT RETAKES THE SHIP

2 Do now: What messages does this cartoon want to convey?

3 Long Hours and Danger Exploitation, unsafe conditions unite workers across regions 12 hour days, 6-7 day workweeks repetitive, mind-dulling tasks no vacation, sick leave, injury compensation Everyone works – Children! Sweatshops: Only jobs for women, kids few skills; lowest wages

4 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Company locked all of the exit doors but one to keep out union organizers Within 18 minutes, 146 die – ladders & hoses don’t reach pass 6th floor-fire escapes do not reach the ground Response: NY task force to study factory working conditions Fire codes, regulate working hours/age

5 Samuel Gompers Samuel Gompers - American Federation of Labor (AFL)
AFL collective bargaining for better wages, hours, conditions AFL strikes successfully, wins higher pay, shorter workweek

6 Eugene V. Debs • Industrial unions include skilled, unskilled workers in an industry • Eugene V. Debs - American Railway Union; uses strikes

7 Strikes Turn Violent The Great Strike of 1877 Railroad strike
Governors say impeding interstate commerce; federal troops intervene The Haymarket Affair – 1886 Chicago Workers gather to protest police brutality Police protecting strike breakers Violence ensues – 7 Policemen and several workers die -Public opinion turns against labor movement

8 Pullman Company Strike
Pullman lays off 3,000, cuts wages but not rents; workers strike Refuses arbitration; violence - federal troops sent Debs jailed, most workers fired, many blacklisted

9 Homestead Strike-1892 Carnegie Steel Plant
Steel Mill shut down –No negotiating with a union! Pinkertons – Hired Police sent to keep mill closed Violence 3 Pinkertons and 7 workers killed Public sentiment favors unions

10 Management and Government Pressure Unions
• Employers forbid unions; turn Sherman Antitrust Act against labor • Legal limitations cripple unions, but membership still rises

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