Working Class Resistance From Haymarket to Pullman.

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Working Class Resistance From Haymarket to Pullman

A Land of Contrasts “Gilded Age” Aristocracy –3/100 of 1 percent owned 20 percent of national wealth –9 percent owned 71 percent of national wealth –The bottom 52 percent owned only 5 percent of the nation’s wealth “proof of industry and foresight on your part or your father’s…”

A Land of Contrasts $300 average annual per capita national income (1880 Census) Earning power actually dropped “Over-supply” vs. “Under-consumption”

Labor Conditions Family wages Periodic unemployment Industrial fines and expenses The “Company Town” Payment in “tickets” The Work Day Hazardous working conditions Skilled vs. unskilled labor “I regard my employees as I do a machine, to be used to my advantage, and when they are old and of no further use, I cast them in the street.” –Massachusetts manufacturer.

Labor Organizations and the Struggle with Capital Community organizations and craft unions The Knights of Labor (1869) –Terence V. Powderly (1879) –Union Pacific and Southern Railway Strike (1885) –Race, gender, and the K.o.L. Eight Hour Day Movement ( ) Haymarket Square “Riots” (1886) Haymarket Square “Riots”

“ Business Unionism” to Socialism (AFL) American Federation of Labor (1881) –Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers –“business unionism” Homestead Steel Strike (1892) Homestead Steel Strike The Pullman Strike (1894) –Eugene V. Debs (American Railway Union)Eugene V. Debs –“A contest between the producing classes and the money power of the country”

Union Membership as Percent of National Workforce, Union members (thousands) , Nonagricultural workforce 6,1408,47011,40413,36017,390 Percent organized 4.89%0.59%8.86%2.43%4.55% –

Haymarket Defendants Haymarket Square “Riots”

Samuel Gompers

“Our victory is now complete and most gratifying. Do not think we will ever have any serious labor trouble again.”— Carnegie (Nov. 20, 1892)

Sing ho, for we know you, Carnegie; God help us and save us, we know you too well; You're crushing our wives and you're starving our babies; In our homes you have driven the shadow of hell. Then bow, bow down to Carnegie, Ye men who are slaves to his veriest whim; If he lowers your wages cheer, vassals, then cheer. Ye are nothing but chattels and slaves under him. - 2nd verse, "A Man Named Carnegie," anonymous, California, 7 July 1892 

Eugene V. Debs