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At the same time there were local strikes in the North led by the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) of the American Federation of Labor. The Southern strike was led by the newly formed National Textile Workers Union (NTWU), and focused on wages and working conditions.
The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO.It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
The American Federation of Labor union label, c. 1900 Samuel Gompers in 1894; he was the AFL leader 1886–1924. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began in 1881 under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Like the National Labor Union, it was a federation of different unions and did not directly enroll workers. Its original goals ...
Colorado Labor Wars: Troops were dispatched to Cripple Creek, Colorado to defeat a strike by the Western Federation of Miners, [25] with the specific purpose of driving the union out of the district. The strike had begun in the ore mills earlier in 1903, and then spread to the mines. American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930)
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry.The AFL formed a coalition of 24 unions, all of which had grown rapidly during World War I.
1898: Erdman Act briefly ends union blacklists. In the second half of the 19th century, several major labor groups like the American Federation of Labor emerged as major strikers and often-brutal ...
The four largest strikes of the year, accounting for 350,100 of the 539,000 workers, were the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strike, the Coalition of ...
The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934. The strike is notable for a five-day running battle between nearly 10,000 strikers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard. Known as the "Battle ...