Chapter 13 Social Studies

Unions

An organization of workers who have come together to achieve many

common goals.

Knights of Labor

A single national union of all skilled and unskilled workers.

Wanted 8-hour work days, better pay, and safer conditions.

Homestead Strike

Union workers battled Pinkerton guards. 9 people were

killed.

Pinkertons

Hired security used by many wealthy businessmen to break

up striking workers.

Henry Frick

Industrialist, union-buster who hired the Pinkertons at

Homestead.

Andrew Carnegie

Wealthy steel magnate

The American Railway Union

A union that welcomed all railroad workers.

Eugene Debs

Socialist who founded the American Railway Union. Leader of the

Pullman Strike.

Pullman Strike

A nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from

May 11 to July 20, 1894, and was a turning point for US labor law.

American Federation of Labor

A national federation of labor unions founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Established in 1905. They organized unskilled factory workers, farm workers, miners and loggers, immigrants, minorities, women, and unemployed. Used strikes to achieve their goals.

Hay market Riot

Violent riots that set back Labor unions

Laissez-Faire Policies

A policy that lets things take their own course