Question

Compare and contrast the Haymarket Riot, the Homestead Strike, and the Pullman Strike. On balance, what was their effect on the organized labor movement?

Answer 1

Haymarket Affair

Only strike where the police harassed the strikers. Only strike where a bomb was thrown.

Homestead strike

The strike occurred because the company stopped discussing decisions with the union (Amalgamated) which denied the union's right to negotiate at all. The strikers approached the plant by river on barges. They poured oil on the water and set it on fire and met the guards with guns and dynamite. After the strike the union was powerless over the National Guard and the strike collapsed.

Pullman strike

The reason for the strike was because of high accommodations prices with a wage cuts. The first strike with two good opposing sides. Eugene V. Debs with the American Railway Union supported the strikers by refusing to handle Pullman cars and equipment. Opposing the strikers was the General Managers' Association. One of the first non-violent and effective strikes. Within a few days of striking, transportation from Chicago to the Pacific Coast was paralyzed. The first strike where a federal court intervened by issuing an injunction forbidding the union to continue the strike. When Debs and his associates defied it, they were arrested and imprisoned. With federal troops protecting the hiring of new workers and union leaders in a federal jail, the strike quickly collapsed.

All

All were strikes because the workers didn't like the conditions of the company's financial quos.

Answer 2

They all have on thing in common they made an impact on the world and made it into history