USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Though the first strike in 1870 was won by the union in 1872, the Bouton Company broke with Local 23 and replaced its entire force with non-union molders. The Bouton Company also blacklisted its striking molders with the cooperation of its fellow employers in Chicago.

Detailed explanation-2: -They demanded higher pay and better conditions. Now McCormick closed the plant and shut out the unionists. He bribed the mayor and police. He hired scabs and was so desperate for workers that he agreed to let them work an eight-hour day, which was what the strike was all about.

Detailed explanation-3: -Industrial workers across the U.S. go on strike, demanding an 8-hour workday. During a strike at McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago, demonstrators clash with police, and several of the strikers are wounded or killed. A bomb is detonated after police break up a meeting of labor activists near Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Detailed explanation-4: -American Labor on the Rise In the spring of 1886 workers struck at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago, the factory that made farm equipment including the famous McCormick Reaper made by Cyrus McCormick. The workers on strike demanded an eight-hour workday, at a time when 60-hour workweeks were common.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago, a citywide organization of all Teamster locals in the Chicago area, began a sympathy strike on June 24, 1903. The three employers sought injunctions against the sympathy strike, which they won on July 20, 1903. The Brass Molders’ strike collapsed soon afterward.