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People and Events
Term | Definition |
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Knights of Labor | trade union founded by garment cutters in Philadelphia; met in secret; recruited unusual people |
Terence V. Powderly | leader of Knights of Labor |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) | group of national trade unions; represented skilled workers in large numbers of trades and crafts; pressed for collective bargaining; still alive today |
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones | spent 50 years fighting for workers' rights; active in drive to organize mine workers |
International Ladies’ Garment Union | pushed for a safer working environment after T.S. Factory fire |
Haymarket Riot | striking in favor of 8-hour workday; bomb caused riot; linked labor movement with violence and disorder |
Homestead Strike | striking workers at Carnegie's steel plant; hired nonunion workers guarded by 300 guards; state militia restored order |
Robert E. Pattison | Pennsylvania's governor in 1892 |
American Railway Union | refused to handle trains including Pullman cars |
Richard Olney | U.S. Attorney General; obtained injunction against union for holding up railways |
Eugene V. Debs | American Railway Union leader refusing to end their strike; sent to jail for it |
Grover Cleveland | U.S president; sent in federal troops to end Pullman strike |
Pullman Strike | when American Railway Union refused to handle trains that included Pullman cars after Pullman railway-car plant went on strike after getting cut wages |