Labor Movement Mini-Project - Period 1 by Keith Layman https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2 Post your marker here en-us 2018-01-10 15:00:23 UTC 2025-11-24 10:19:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Ludlow Massacre https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220193081 11,000 miners went on strike in Colorado against the Colorado Fuel and Iron corporation to get safer working environments, higher salaries, and didn’t want the corporation to take over their lives. The United Mine Workers moved out to the nearby hillside to continue their strike. The national guard was sent out to stop the strike. Pits were dug out to try to protect people from the conflict; 66 people died.]]> 2018-01-10 15:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220193081 Haymarket, 1886 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220193978 What: The bombing, strike, and rally that took place in Haymarket Square. It also includes the execution of 4 leaders of the incident.
When: May 1886
How: About 1,500 workers, organized by German leaders,  were protesting the killing of a strikers by the Chicago police the day before.
Where: Haymarket Square in Chicago
Consequences: The convictions of 8 people and the execution of the 4 leaders. It set off a national wave of xenophobia considering the leaders and some participants were foreign-born. It led some people to think the justice system was flawed and there was no possible way to protest the Gilded Age.

Summary:
In the wake of a rally the day before, a German lead group organized in Haymarket Square to protest the shooting by the Chicago Police the day prior. A protester threw a bomb at the police, which lead to the shooting of multiple protesters and the conviction of 8 individuals, 4 of which were executed.]]> 2018-01-10 15:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220193978 Great Railroad Strike 1877 michaelnoone https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220197699 On July 17, 1877 the first general strike in US history the workers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, went on strike, refusing to let trains run until most recent pay cut was returned. This strike started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but extended nationwide after wages were reduced.Governor Thomas Young encouraged Ohioans to form private police forces to defend businesses from strikers. Ended in August 1877 because of government intervention]]> 2018-01-10 15:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220197699 Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire- March 25, 1911 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220200868 The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory, employed by young immigrant women. A fire in a factory building killed 145 workers as a result of bad safety features and locked doors. This tragedy took place on March 25, 1911 in the Brown Building, New York City, NY. This was an example of bad safety features in the factory (locked doors, narrow staircases, broken elevators). The result of this 18 minute fire was 146 deaths and 71 injuries - a majority being teenage Jewish girls. Many people on floors above the 11th were able to escape to the roof where they saw girls jumping from the 11th floors to their deaths to avoid being burned. The owners of the factory were tried for manslaughter but were not indicted. This also lead to the Sullivan Hoey Fire Prevention Law so such tragedy would not happen again. The next morning more than 15,000 women left their work in shirtwaist factories. This created the Women’s Trade Union to help prevent other incidents like this. Mary Domsky-Abrams was a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and witnessed the burning down of the factory and the loss of her co-workers lives. Domsky-Abrams views this event as a tragedy and heartbreaking as she mourned to loss of over 100 of her fellow peers. 



]]> 2018-01-10 15:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220200868 Pullman Palace Car Strike May - July 1894 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220201277 The Pullman Palace Car was a railroad strike/boycott that resulted in a disruption of Midwest railroad traffic from May 11, 1894 - July 20, 1894. The Pullman Palace Car Company created luxurious and more efficient railcars which also had the company town known as Pullman to house the workers. Due to an economic depression, the company cut down its wages by about 25%, however the price of rent, necessities, etc. remained the same in the company town. After George M. Pullman (company owner) refused to speak to the workers about raising wages and decreasing the 16 hr work day, the workers went on strike. The American Railway Union (ARU) refused to use the Pullman cars escalating the strike creating the first national strike in US history. By June 30, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads had quit work rather than handle Pullman cars. Overall very effective.]]> 2018-01-10 15:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220201277 Homestead Strike of 1892 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/9j6gj5jqx8t2/wish/220202183  
Historical Marker:
 In Homestead, Pennsylvania, a steel company town owned by Carnegie, a manager named Henry Clay Frick began locking the workers out of the plant.  In 1889, the labor union of Amalgamated Association of Iron/Steel workers held a strike & won a favorable three-year contract.  This created tensions between Carnegie and the workers.  When the contract expired on July 1, 1892, all of the workers were discharged, and Frick plotted to stop protests by hiring 300 Pinkerton agents to force the workers out, leading to a bloody battle.  After the strike, amount of skilled workers decreased ⅕  of the size, shifts for workers increased from eight to twelve hours, and the Carnegie Steel Company’s profits increased to a $106 million the nine years after the incident.

   
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