Unions:
Philosophies & Actions
Laws prior to 1926
Events & Tactics
Unions:
Goals
Laws after 1925
100

Between 1936-1955, this org. embraced business unionism philosophy AND appealed to unskilled factory workers.

What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?

100

Jury verdict said that all unions were criminal conspiracies.

What is the Strong version of the Conspiracy Doctrine (Philadelphia Cordwainer's case)?

100

Case that 'weakened' the conspiracy doctrine.

What is Commonwealth of Mass. v. Hunt (1842)?

100

First union to seek the Ten-hour workday and abolish debtor's prison.

National Trades Union (1834-1837)

100

Outlawed employment discrimination against those 40 and older.

What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967?

200

This union led a Railroad strike against Pullman Company in 1880s.

What is the American Railway Union?

200

Outlawed price fixing; remedies were triple damages.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

200

Violent actions that led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor.

What is the Haymarket Square Riot of 1886?

200

Union attempted to organize car assembly plants by workers chaining themselves to machines.

What were sit-down strikes of the United Auto Workers?

200

This outlawed child labor, set minimum wage, and overtime pay.

What is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?

300

Accused of raiding members' pension funds, the union had close ties with the mafia.

What is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters?

300

Court order required workers to abandon a strike. If disobeyed, union leaders could be jailed for 'contempt'.

What is a Labor Injunction?

300

This led to the collapse of the National Trades Union in 1837.

What was the 'Panic of 1837'?

300

First union to want women's suffrage and to create a Dept. of Labor.

What was the National Labor Union (1866-1872)?

300

Create a framework for collective bargaining. Applies to rail and airline workers.

What was the Railway Labor Act of 1926?

400

Established by Samuel Gompers.  Open only to skilled trades workers.

What is the AFL - American Federation of Labor (1886-1956)?

400

Outlawed violent criminal conspiracies.

What are syndicalism laws?

400

Government action that led to arrests of IWW leaders.

What were the Palmer Raids (part of the "Red Scare")?

400

Union wanted to 'cut out the middle man' by creating "cooperatives" of producers and consumers.

What was the Knights of Labor (1869-1893)?

400

FIRST federal law giving non-rail workers the right to unionize. Declared 'unconstitutional' by Supreme Court.  

What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA or NRA) of 1934?

500

A group of coal miners who used violence.

Who were the Molly McGuires?

500

Exempted unions from Sherman anti-trust act.

What is the Clayton Act?

500

Strike at Steel Factory owned by Andrew Carnegie.

What was the Homestead Incident? [NOTE:  covered in the textbook]

500

Union that wanted communism; slogan was 'One Big Union.'

What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

500

Required financial disclosure by unions and regulated internal union affairs.

What is the Landrum-Griffin Act [Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act] of 1959?