WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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using military force against the workers
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requiring negotiation to resolve the disputes
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maintaining a neutral position between labor and managemen
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providing economic aid to striking workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The federal government obtained an injunction against the union, Debs, and other boycott leaders, ordering them to stop interfering with trains that carried mail cars. After the strikers refused, President Grover Cleveland ordered in the Army to stop the strikers from obstructing the trains.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pullman Strike and Homestead Strike were both examples of workers’ attempts to push back against what they perceived to be unfair management practices and unsafe working conditions during the Gilded Age.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the government working to the General Managers’ Association’s ends, Debs felt the only way to force the Pullman Company into arbitration was reaching out to other labor groups to join in a general strike, but his efforts did not succeed. The boycott dissolved in mid-July, and the ARU was defeated.
Detailed explanation-4: -The troops also acted as Pullman Company enforcers and attacked union offices. The people were striking because of 16 hour work days compounded by a wage reduction that made it difficult for them to pay rent for their company housing (there were around 12, 000 workers), which the Pullman Company would not reduce.