WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union’s activities
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Workers lost confidence in union’s leadership after union president given details of rally to police
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Union members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violence
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Union’s emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Knights of Labor began to steadily lose membership from workers who feared an association with the negatively viewed union. The once mighty Knights of Labor was devastated singlehandedly by the Haymarket affair, and eventually collapsed completely.
Detailed explanation-2: -A grand jury eventually indicted 31 suspected labor radicals in connection with the bombing, and eight men were convicted in a sensational and controversial trial. Judge Joseph E. Gary imposed the death sentence on seven of the men, and the eighth was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Haymarket Riot increased union membership. Organized labor was still relatively new at the time, and in the months after the May 1886 Riot, the nation’s largest labor union, the Knights of Labor, added over 40, 000 members.
Detailed explanation-4: -Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action. A bomb was thrown into the crowd, killing seven policemen and injuring 60 others. Police and workers fired on each other. Public demand for action led to the arrest of eight anarchists (see anarchism).