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☆☆☆☆☆it was to protect the rights of the workers in factories so they have the right to protest, get compensated if they get injured working, etc.
To speak with one voice.
As a dangerous anarchist movementAmericans seen labor unions as a threat. This was broken up and some got killed.
Teaching of english was a common activity at Hull House in Chicago.
the factory was mechanizing, which cost workers their jobs. Apex
the oil industry
Private security was hired to protect strikebreakers during the 1892 Homestead strike.
William Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican President and was nominated for a second term by his party in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt who started off as a Republican left and started a new party. This cost Taft the re-election and put a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson in as President.
Government corruption was fought by progressives and muckrakers- apex
Promoted laws against child labor (apex)
The strike ended with Frick (plant GM) hiring replacement workers for the mill under the protection of the Pennsylvania State Militia. Once he successfully got the plant running again, he simply waited out the strikers, until they began ignoring the strike and returning to work under Frick's conditions (the conditions that he had originally proposed, which had led to the strike). Within two months, nearly all of the striking workers that management wanted back had returned to work, the rest being permanently replaced.
