Homestead and Pullman Strikes

Worker organization for higher wages, better conditions, benefits and pressure on government

• Labor Unions
• Labor Onions
• Labor Unity
• Labor Worker

Long hours, low wages, dangerous conditions, child labor and terrible living conditions 

• Strike conditions
• Worker conditions
  
• Strike Breaker
  
• Scabs conditions

Workers refuse to work until demands are met

• Lockout
• Knights of Labor
• Labor
• Strike
  

Temporary worker hired by company usually black or immigrant

• Strike Breaker (Scab)
• "Yellow Dog" Contract
• American Federation of Labor
• Immigrant breaker

Carnegie’s Pinkertons tried to insert scab workers into factory. State police forced scabs in

• Haymarket Riot
• Homestead Strike
  
• Pullman Strike
• Labor Unions

Robber Barons wanted government and press they could bribe and use

• Government/Stress
• Government/Dress
• Government/Press
• Governor/Press
  

Forced employees to sign contract stating they would not join union

• “Old Yellow” Contract
• “Yellow Dodge” Contract
• “Yellow Cat” Contract
• “Yellow Dog” Contract
  

First big union fell apart after some unsuccessful strikes

• Knights of Labor
  
• Bishops of Labor
• Pawns of Labor
• Rooks of Labor

Used the capitalist system to exploit workers 

• Robber Barons
  
• Slobber Barons
  
• Robber Barens
• Robber Barrons

Strikers, scabs, police fought in Chicago press blamed strikers rich owners paid newspapers off 

• Haymarket Riut
  
• Haymarker Riot
• Haymarket Riot
  
• Haymaker Riot