HIUS 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Red Scare, Richard Hofstadter, Industrial Workers Of The World
24 Oct 2016
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Afl"s samuel gompers: working on bread and butter issues; workers who joined afl were job conscious rather than class conscious. Would rather have good wages and jobs than wage a class war: were capable of huge strikes but knew they were met with great resistance from bosses, judiciaries, and the state. Failures of united mine workers (umw: tried to organize a labor movement of the miners in colorado; 1913 almost 500 workers were killed or maimed in industry accidents. No court (in almost 25) in colorado granted no compensation for any mine-related deaths to the families: progressive women. International ladies" garment workers" union (ilgwu: only 200 women joined this movement; As soon as their employees realized these women were unionized, and were organizing the strike, they fired them and hired thugs to beat them up women were arrested. Really enraged the public opinion: number jumped to 20,000 members on strike.
