1. Bell Ringer What are scabs? Define injunction. What is the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was it effective?

2. Objective 5-4 -Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.

3. Labor Strikes The Great Strike of 1877 -July 1877 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - strike because of wage cuts - 50,000 miles of track were not running - Lasted for one week - severely damaged economy - President Hayes sent in federal troops to stop the strike - - 1910- 40% of women working

5. Labor Strikes Haymarket Square Riot - May 1886 - Chicago, Illinois - Strikers were protesting police brutality for killing a striker the day before - Bomb was thrown into crowd - several died - Police opened fire on crowd - 8 men convicted, 4 executed - People began to turn away from labor movement because of violence - 1910- 40% of women working http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQxncb2ihQ

8. Labor Strikes Homestead Strike - Carnegie Steel company - workers strike because of wage cuts - The Pinkerton’s hired scabs - violence erupted - steel production stopped - Economy hurt badly - Federal troops sent in - 1910- 40% of women working

10. Labor Strikes Pullman Strike 1894 - Pullman Co. builds railcars - striking because a wage cuts - wages cut by 50% - Violence erupts - Eugene V. Debs negotiates for strikers - Major boycotts begin - Federal troops sent in

11. Pullman Strike

13. Great Strike of 1877 Haymarket Square Riot 1886 Homestead Strike 1886 Pullman Strike 1894 End of Labor Union Movement

14. Questions What did President Hayes do to end the Great Strike of 1877? Which strike turned the public away from the Union movement? Which strike slowed steel production and had to be put down by federal troops?

15. Vocabulary The Great Strike of 1877 Haymarket Square Riot Homestead Strike Pullman Strike

16. Labor Union Movement Strikes Name of strike Cause Event Result Name of strike Cause Event Result Name of strike Cause Event Result Name of strike Cause Event Result