Period 4 Labor Movement Mini-Project by Keith Layman https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft Post your marker here en-us 2017-01-17 15:06:02 UTC 2025-09-29 11:47:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Pullman Car Company Strike https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449645582 After George B. Pullman  reduced workers wages and  increased their rents at the Pullman Company Town employees were required to live in, workers striked from the Pullman Car Company on May 11th, 1894. The workers striked for higher wages and more freedoms from being confined to living in the company town. The strike was supported by the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs. The American Railway Union persuaded many in the Chicago area to boycott the rail systems leading to the shutdown of the 24 rail lines leading out of Chicago. The Strike failed when the Courts intervened and President grover Cleveland sent in federal troops. Eugene Debs was sent to prison for 6 months. 
 https://spartacus-educational.com/USApullman.htm 
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1102]]> 2020-02-24 18:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449645582 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449649562 Still suffering from the financial Panic of 1873, workers were still upset from reduced wages. In July 1877, workers went on strike due to the reduced wages that had occurred twice in the previous year in West Virginia. This anger leads to violence towards the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lines as all employees were making more than a dollar a day by 10 percent. The Baltimore and Ohio strikes lead to a widespread of strikes across the nation. It was a revolt of working men against low prices of labor. Thomas L. Young, Governor of Ohio sent out militias to take care of Ohio strikers from hostilities and refutes in running the railroad lines until wages were properly paid.

Primary Source:http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/teacherguides/strike/allarticles.pdf
]]> 2020-02-24 18:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449649562 Molly Maguires https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449650595 The Molly Maguires were a secret group of Irish immigrant miners who, when faced with the treatment and poor working conditions imposed upon them, formed the Molly Maguires to commit violent acts against mine owners alongside demanding better benefits and wages for those within the industry. Due to a corrupt trial, 20 members of the Molly Maguires secret organization were unfairly executed. Their trial and deaths are a large sign of the corruption of the legal system during the rise of corporations in the Second Industrial Age.
Primary Source: https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmolly.htm
POV: As the owner of the mines in Schuylkill County, Franklin B. Gowen would have financial incentive to stop the Molly Maguires’ secret society due to their unionized efforts to get a higher wage for all workers in the mines. 

]]> 2020-02-24 18:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449650595 Homestead Strike https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449652966 On June 30, 1892, 3,000 workers at the Carnegie Steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania went on strike to protest a salary cut issued by Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie’s top lieutenant. Violence ensued between union workers and Pinkerton agents employed by Frick to keep order, as well as between union workers and the “scab” workers hired to replace them. Ultimately, the strike was unsuccessful and the mill reopened with nonunion workers. 

Primary source:
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735066205083/viewer#page/1/mode/2up
The source is a letter sent from Frick to Carnegie in which Frick suggests that the situation is largely under control, even though workers demonstrate their displeasure.]]> 2020-02-24 18:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449652966 Haymarket Square Riot https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/wvo7jsopdlft/wish/449654428 On May 4th, 1886, a labor protest at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois concerning the police’s murder of a striker the day prior escalated into a riot after a protester threw a bomb at armed policemen attempting to break up the rally. After subsequent police gunfire, many were killed and a large wave of xenophobia rose as foreign radical and labor leaders were rounded up and imprisoned.

Primary Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33277275/anarchist_trial_verdict_all_found/
POV: Reporter on the case of the riot 

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