WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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unions were powerful enough to break the restrictions placed on them by mangement
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unions were infiltrated by anarchists after people were killed during the protest in Chicago
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non-violent civil disobedience was a sucessful way to protest racial segregation in the “Jim Crow” south
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the needs and concern of union members mattered less to the government than thee needs and concerns of industrial executives
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Pullman strike brought Eugene Debs national attention, and it led directly to his conversion to socialism. The events of the strike led other Americans to begin a quest for achieving more harmonious relations between capital and labor while protecting the public interest.
Detailed explanation-2: -By involving as many as 250, 000 railroad workers on some 20 railroads, the Pullman Strike demonstrated the power of the labour movement. However, in precipitating the use of an injunction to break the strike, it opened the door to greater court involvement in limiting the effectiveness of strikes.
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: -Pullman strike This was a nonviolent strike which brought about a shut down of western railroads, which took place against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago in 1894, because of the poor wages of the Pullman workers.