ILRLR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wildcat Strike Action, Samuel Gompers, Pullman Strike
27 Jun 2016
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Organized people in different industries (anyone who is a wage laborer) Hostile against chinese, but included both men and women, as well as african- Want to restore power of working people. Political reforms including the graduated income tax. Began leading in 1879, by 1886 had 700,000 members. I can hire of the working class to kill the other half - was a financier and industrialist. Success with wildcat strikes (occurred at random; unplanned) lead to him backing down and restoring the wages he cut. Strikes of 1884 and 1885 facilitate membership and unite workers. Some thought they should be more radical and seek further political endeavors whereas some thought they should be more concrete and win wage-related conflicts. Anarchists tied to the knights, people realized they didn"t want to be associated with such a radical group. American workers were relatively moderate, not radicals. Knights laid foundation for american federation of labor (afl) success.
