1. Labor Unions & Strikes

2. Three Choices for Workers…
Continue in misery
Join a Union and possibly get fired or even killed
Become a communist and start a revolution

3. Socialism Public control of property & income
Society should be in charge of wealth
Wealth should be redistributed equally
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
How to get this done? Workers revolution

4. Could This Happen In America?
How could this help workers?
Who would be against Socialism/Communism in America?
This is radical—is there something less radical that would help workers?

5. Less Radical—Labor Unions
Unions: improve working conditions (not overthrow the system)
Collective Bargaining
Strikes (last resort)
Best—national strike
Why was this appealing to workers?

6. Employers’ Reaction No Union Meetings Union organizers fired
Blacklisting
Yellow Dog contracts
Would not bargain collectively
Strikes met with violence

7. The Tournament of Today: A Set-to Between Labor and Monopoly

8. Anarchists Meet on the Lake Front in 1886

9. McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Haymarket Riot (1886)
McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.

10. Haymarket Martyrs

11. Governor John Peter Altgeld

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

13. Big Corporate Profits!

14. Attempted Assassination!
Henry Clay Frick
Alexander Berkman

15. A “Company Town”:
Pullman, IL

16. Pullman Cars
A Pullman porter

17. The Pullman Strike of 1894

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

19. Government by injunction!
The Pullman Strike of 1894
Government by injunction!