The Great Railroad Strike The Great Railroad Strike

The Great Railroad Strike

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

“The Tournament of Today” Carefully analyze the cartoon above and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper: 1) What do the knight and the “horse” represent? 2) What do the man and the mule represent? 3) Who is cheering for the knight? 4) Who is cheering for the man? 5) Why is portrayed as such a lop-sided fight? 6) Which side do you think the cartoonist sympathizes with? 7) To which strike do you think this cartoon refers ?

The Haymarket Affair

Anarchists Meet on the Lake Front in 1886

Haymarket Riot (1886) Mc. Cormick Harvesting Machine Co.

Haymarket Martyrs

Governor John Peter Altgeld

The Homestead Strike

Homestead Steel Strike (1892) Homestead Steel Works The Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers

Big Corporate Profits!

Attempted Assassination! Henry Clay Frick Alexander Berkman

The Pullman Strike

“Compan y Town” Pullman, IL

Pullman Cars A Pullman porter

The Pullman Strike of 1894

President Grover Cleveland If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered!

The Pullman Strike of 1894 Government by injunction!

The Great Strikes of the 1800 s Background: What Triggered the Event? (See p. 472 -476) Name of Event Industry Leaders Outcome: Who Won? What Was the Significance? Great Railroad Strike (1877) Railroads RR: Vanderbilt, Morgan Union: ORC Prez: Hayes Panic of 1873, 10% wage cuts, poor working conditions, speculation/profiteering Governors sent militias, strike spread, president sent army, workers burned rail yards, strike was crushed, govt sided with businesses, unions became better organized Haymarket Affair (1886) Manuf acturi ng 8 hour movement, strike/lockout at Mc. Cormick Reaper factory in Chicago, police brutality Anarchist threw bomb at police, 8 police killed, 4 workers killed, publicized trial & appeals, Knights of Labor declines, public support of unions declines… creation of AFof. L Homestead Strike (1892) Steel Wage cut proposals, , strike/lockout, Pinkertons defeated Assassination attempt on Frick by Berkman, state militia crushed strike; steel union was destroyed, Carnegie publicly supported unions but crushed them at his plants Pullman Strike (1894) Railroads Biz: Mc. Cormick Union: Spies, anarchists Prez: Cleveland Biz: Carnegie/ Frick Union: Berkman Prez: Harrison Biz: Pullman Union: Debs Prez: Cleveland “Utopian” company town, wage cuts but no rent cuts, strike Strikebreakers, federal troops (b/c strike interfered with delivery of mail), burning of rail yards, strike was crushed