The Republican candidate who wanted to represent the workers in the stockyards in the book "The Jungle" was Jurgis Rudkus. He became involved in labor organizing and political activities to fight for better working conditions and fair treatment of workers in the meat-packing industry.
Scotty Doyle
Scotty Doyle
The Republican candidate who wanted to represent the workers in the stockyards in "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair was Jurgis Rudkus. He becomes involved in politics and runs as a candidate for the Republican Party to fight for the rights of workers in the harsh conditions of the meatpacking industry.
Scotty Doyle
Scotty Doyle
Armour, Swift, Morris and Hammond were the major corporations, but the workers were often unskilled immigrants, part of the black migration from the South after the Civil War and other exploitable populations. The Union Stockyards was in business from 1865 until 30 July 1971.
Jurgis was helped by a kind-hearted charity worker named Mike Scully, who offered him a place to stay and a job helping to recruit workers for political campaigns. Through this job, Jurgis found his way back to Chicago and the stockyards.
The chief function of political party workers is to get people to vote for their candidate. This is primarily accomplished by distributing campaign literature, making phone calls that raise awareness of the candidate (or bad-mouth the opponent), and raising money,
"National unions" represent only workers in Canada, whereas "international unions" represent workers in Canada and the United States. "Independent local organizations" represent workers that have no affiliation. "Directly chartered unions" are locals representing workers that are directly affiliated to a labour congress.
Eugene V. Debs founded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and was a five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Debs was a prominent labor organizer and advocate for workers' rights in the early 20th century.
In 1966, they recognized the union's right to represent workers.
They can form a union.