Реферат: History Of The Labor Movement In Th
United States Essay, Research Paper
This is a brief history of the labor movement in the United States
from the late eighteen hundreds to the present. In 1881 a movement
toward organized labor was beginning to be inforced. A group of
people from a few trades and industries such as carpenters, cigar-
makers, the printers, merchants, and the steel workers met and formed
The Federation of Organized Trades And Labor Unions. Although
it had little power, the organization was defanantly and the side as the
workers. It stated that a eight hour work day was considered a full day
and asked that all affiliated unions include this as part of there law by
May 1, 1886.
Dispite some success it was felt that the organization needed
reorganizing to make it a more effective center for the trade unions.
It was now that the American Federation of Labor came to be.
Gompers was elected president and was a leader in the national
cigar makers union as well. The newly formed American Federation
of Labor (AFL) began to recognize that women should be represented
through organized unions. In 1894 it adapted a resolution that “women
should be organized into trade unions to the end that they may
scientifically and permanently abolish the terrible evils accompanying
their weakend, unorganized state; and we demand that they receive
equal compensation with men for equal services performed.”
While 8 hour day strike movement was generally peaceful, there was
some acts of violence that set the labor movement back. The
McCormick Harvester Company in Chicago learned ahead of time of
a planned strike and so locked out all its employees who held union
cards. Because of this fights broke out and police opened fire on the
union members killing four of them. A public rally to protest these
killings at Haymarket Square drew a large crowd. When a bomb went
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