Workers

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Workers Rights
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What is this a picture of???
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Unions Victories

• ½ strikes lead to demands being met (hours,
  wages, conditions)
• Victorious Anthracite Coal Strike 1902
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vuxO24cTGCeI
• Politically fight for
• Child labor legislation
• Work days/hours
• Muller v. Oregon (1908) women only 10 hour
  day legal
• Bunting v. Oregon (1917) men too 10 hour day
  legal
• Workmens compensation laws (1910)

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Unions face obstacles

• Viewed as too extreme (Wobblies associated with
  Socialists)
• Associated with violence (Knights of Labor after
  Haymarket Square)
• Not aggressive liked better (American
  Federation of Labor) do not push hard!

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Change because of tragedy
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Union leaders lead the way

• Strikes
• ½ time demands met
• Will political leaders support strikers?/unions?

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• the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New
  York City demonstrated the tragic consequences of
  exploited workers and dangerous working
  conditions.

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