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The Labor Movement

Word List with 16 words
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Interstate Commerce Act

1887 act to try to stop railroads from price discrimination.

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890 act of Congress prohibiting any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.

regulation

A law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.

trust buster

A federal official who seeks to dissolve business trusts especially through vigorous application of antitrust regulations.

Knights of Labor

A secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.

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progressive

Favoring or advocating progress change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters.

haymarket riot

A square in Chicago: scene of a riot in 1886 between police and labor unionists.

American Federation of Labor

A federation of trade unions organized in 1886: united with the Congress of Industrial Organizations 1955; lso known as A.F.L., AFL, A.F. of L.

Samuel Gompers

U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886

Industrial Workers of the World

An international industrial labor union, considered radical by many, that was organized in Chicago in 1905 and that disintegrated after 1920; also known as I.W.W., IWW, the Wobblies.

The Jungle

A reformist novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.

railroad strike

1877 system-wide railroad strike over economic conditions.

Homestead strike

1892 strike against Carnegie Steel Company over economic and working conditions.

Pullman strike

1894 strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company over wages.

Eugene Debs

U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900

organized labor

All workers who are organized in labor unions; these unions considered as a political force.