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- 1. Federal holiday honoring the men and women who worked hard to change labor conditions.
- 5. all workers acting collectively, or together, had a much greater chance of success in negotiating with management
- 7. He encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process - Full Name
- 10. Thousands of Union members in Chicago went on strike because they wanted an _____-____ work day
- 12. The first national labor union. It pushed for an eight-hour workday, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor.
- 13. These soon became available to more people than ever before
- 15. workers repeating a single step again and again, brought costs down and caused production to rise
- 16. Union members protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs. The company refused to negotiate with the union and locked workers out of the plant, hiring strikebreakers to perform their jobs. The workers responded by seizing control of the plant.
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- 2. organized individual national unions, such as the mine-Workers' and steelworkers' unions. This also limited its membership to skilled workers.
- 3. Where the first major union strike began
- 4. worked for better conditions for miners. Organized strikes and helped educate workers.
- 6. workers met at Haymarket Square to protest the killings that took place in Chicago. Someone threw a bomb that wounded many police officers and killed eight. The police fired into the crowd, killing several people and wounding 100 others.
- 8. How most employers felt about collective bargaining
- 9. stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs. President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago to stop the strike.
- 11. Workers formed these to get better wages and working conditions for all workers in a factory or industry.
- 14. Leader of the Knights - Full name