bell ringer what are scabs? define injunction. what is the purpose of the sherman antitrust act and...

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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