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Summary Trade Union Civil Rights in the USA
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Early trade unions 20000 strikes from 1880 to 1900 from these early
unions
Knights of labor
Founded 1869
Allowed all workers
Demanded: equal pay for women, 8 hour days,
end child labour
1886- 700000 members including 10000 women
and 50000 African Americans
Collapsed after Haymarket bombing, 1886-
workers and police killed
American federation of labor (AFL)
Founded 1886, replacing KOL
Group of craft unions such as hatmakers and
cigarmakers
Demanded: higher wages and better working
conditions
1900- 500000 members
1914- 2 million members
International workers of the world (IWW)
Radical union opposing AFL’s methods
Founded 1905
, Goal was to overthrow employers
Accepted immigrant workers
Led by socialist party leader Eugene V Debs
1923- 100000 members
Coxey's army
1894- protest march to Washington
Similar policy to FDR, Keynesian
Members described as vagrants
Protesters climbed into the capitol building and
were arrested
Divisions in the workforce
Haymarket bombing, 1886
Protest rally
8 workers and 7 police killed
Blamed on German anarchists
Ended KOL
Immigration
1873- Molly Maguires- bombed railways
Growing fear of communism
Unions suffered because of this
Immigrant women worked in sweatshops 16 hours
a day
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