The Great Strikes from 1877 through Pullman
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 4 The Great Railroad Strike becomes national In July 1877, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced another wage reduction amid the long depression that followed the Panic of 1873. Railroad workers at Martinsburg, West Virginia, stopped trains, and the action spread along trunk lines to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, […]
The AFL, Craft Unionism, Debs, and Industrial Unionism
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 4 A federation built around the craft Delegates created the American Federation of Labor in 1886, with cigar maker Samuel Gompers as its enduring leader. The AFL was a federation of largely autonomous craft unions: carpenters, printers, machinists, and other skilled workers organized by trade. Gompers's "pure […]
