bell ringer what are scabs? define injunction. what is the purpose of the sherman antitrust act and...
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Bell Ringer
• What are scabs?• Define injunction.• What is the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust
Act and was it effective?
Objective 5-4-Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.
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
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- 1910- 40% of women working
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
Labor StrikesHomestead 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
Labor StrikesPullman 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
Pullman Strike
Great Strike of
1877
Haymarket Square Riot
1886
Homestead Strike 1886
Pullman Strike 1894
End of Labor Union Movement
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?
Vocabulary
• The Great Strike of 1877• Haymarket Square Riot• Homestead Strike• Pullman Strike
Labor Union Movement Strikes
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