Labor Union and Populist Movement

Question 1

Company Towns

Answer 1

A huge mining company, textile mill, or factory that controlled and operated everything within the town

Question 2

Skilled workers weekly salary

Answer 2

$20

Question 3

Unskilled workers weekly salary

Answer 3

$10

Question 4

1900-1910 how many people were killed on the job

Answer 4

3%

Question 5

How many railroad workers killed or hurt in 1881

Answer 5

30,000

Question 6

What percent of the public was unemployed

Answer 6

19%

Question 7

Wages were low because…

Answer 7

1. A market for cheap labor
2. A flood of immigrant workers
3. Depressions
4. Increase of power of employers over employees

Question 8

Labor Union

Answer 8

Organization of workers who could negotiate and bargain with business leaders

Question 9

Poor Working Conditions (4)

Answer 9

1. $1-$2 a day
2. 10-12 hour work days for 6 or 7 days a week
3. Unsafe factories
4. Had to take jobs during bad economic times

Question 10

2 Types of Unions

Answer 10

Craft Union: Organization of workers in the same trade (carpenters or plumbers)
Labor Union: Organization of workers of many trades who work in the same industry (steel or automobile workers)

Question 11

Knights of Labor Leader

Answer 11

Terence V. Powderly

Question 12

The Knights Members

Answer 12

Anyone with a job

Question 13

Knights requests

Answer 13

1. Government ownership of railroads and utilities
2. 8 hour workday
3. Equal pay for men and women
4. An end to employment of children under 14
5. An income tax based on the ability to pay

Question 14

Molly Maguires

Answer 14

Irish workers who formed a secret society in the PA coal fields. They tried to win their goals through violence

Question 15

Haymarket Riot

Answer 15

Strike against McCormick Harvester Works in Chicago. A bomb was thrown at the police. The police opened fire on the crowd. 7 Police Dead, 70 Injured, 8 convicted of murder, 4 executed. RIP Knights

Question 16

Blacklist

Answer 16

A lists of workers names who belonged to Unions. They would not be hired

Question 17

Yellow Dog Contracts

Answer 17

A written agreement not to join a Union

Question 18

Lockout

Answer 18

Business owners closed their plants and locked the workers out

Question 19

Strikebreakers

Answer 19

Nonunion workers hired to do the work of the strikers (SCABS)

Question 20

AFL Leader

Answer 20

Samuel Gompers (Skilled workers)

Question 21

ARU Leader

Answer 21

Eugene V. Debs

Question 22

ARU Strike

Answer 22

Vs Pullman Co. after he cut wages and not rent and find employees. They stopped all railcars to the west coast with Pullman Cars. Mail cars are put on and Eugene is put in jail.

Question 23

Injuction

Answer 23

Court order to end a strike