Labor Unions

Question 1

big business

Answer 1

• “tycoons” ran the businesses
• Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan
• tycoons are super-rich

Question 2

working conditions

Answer 2

• dirty, poor air, dangerous machinery
• if you are injured on the job, it is your responsibility
• 6 day work week/low pay
• child labor (cheap) being used - dangerous

Question 3

1866 - National labor union

Answer 3

• existed in europe first

- met with americans in the 1860s about working conditions

Question 4

american unions

Answer 4

• knights of labor - first union - damage to one, is damage to all
• 1876 the Great Strike - first strike every - railroad industry (#1 industry in america). president Hayes told workers to go back to war (sent in army). union lose/owners win
• 1886 Haymarket square (chicago) - bomb explodes during strike killing workers and police. unions look bad
• AFL - national union - wanted an 8 hour day
• collective bargaining - sit down and talk

Question 5

remember this…

Answer 5

strikes are ugly. workers are upset. owners are upset, the community is upset at the lack of production. collective bargaining is the key. sit down, talk, and solve the problem

Question 6

the great strike involved what major industry?

Answer 6

railroad

Question 7

during the great strike, who instructed striking workers to go back to work or be fired?

Answer 7

president

Question 8

samuel gompers became a national union figure as the head of the

Answer 8

american federation of labor

Question 9

which union first began as a secret society?

Answer 9

knights of labor

Question 10

when a “closed shop” occurs:

Answer 10

everyone in the factory is a member of the union