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The Great Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry. The AFL formed a coalition of 24 unions, all of which had grown rapidly during World War I.
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Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Homestead Strike: [20] Pinkerton Guards, trying to pave the way for the introduction of strikebreakers, opened fire on striking Carnegie mill steel-workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In the ensuing battle, three Pinkertons surrendered and were set upon and beaten by a mob of townspeople, most of them women.
The first chassis on the assembly aisle at the Ford factory in Long Beach, California. In 1926, Ford Motor Company become one of the first employers to institute an eight-hour-a-day, five-day ...
The Steel Strike of 1919 disrupted the entire industry for months, but the union lost and its membership sharply declined. [45] Rapid growth of cities made the 1920s boom years. President Harding and social reformers forced it to end the 12-hour day in 1923. [46] Earnings were recorded at $2.650 billion for 2016. [47]
The WNBA also went on strike, as did several Major League Soccer teams and Major League Baseball teams. The General Trades Union didn’t last long, but it represents one of the earlier efforts to ...