Industry and Unions

 Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were — 

• requiring vocational training programs for children
• employing children as a source of cheap labor
• seeking government regulation of child labor
• providing safe working conditions for child laborers

What industry was paralyzed by the Pullman Strike of 1894?

• Clothing
• Steel
• Railroads
• It was spread across several industries

What does AFL stand for?

• American Fun Labor
• American Finance of Labor
• American Freedom of Labor
• American Federation of Labor

Who did the AFL represent?

• trade and craft workers
• business owners
• government workers
• teachers

Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the Congress of Industrial Organization were examples of....

• Organized Crime
• Terrorist organizations
• Labor unions

The Homestead Strike was a protest 

• in Colorado demanding safer working conditions. 
• Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
• against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions
• against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.

How did the public often perceive unions as the result of events like the Haymarket riot and the Homestead strike?

• The unions were viewed as champions of the common man
• The unions were viewed as persecuted victims 
• The unions were viewed as promoting violence and anarchy 
• The unions were viewed as being treated unfairly by the government 

What was an important consequence of the Haymarket Riot?

• Decline of the Knights of Labor
• Rally for public opinion in favor of workers
• Victory of workers in the Homestead Strikes
• Break up of the American Federation of Labor

When groups of workers band together for higher pay  and better working conditions they are forming a________________.

• Labor Union
• Collective Bargaining
• Blacklst 
• Yellow Dog Contract

When the labor refuses to work, this is known as ________________.

• strike
• collective bargaining
• yellow dog contract
• injunction