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Major Pre WWI unions

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Major Pre-WWI Unions National Labor Union (1866-1872) Advocated for 8 hr work days Took in both skilled and unskilled workers (excluded the Chinese) Led to the Knights of Labor Knights of Labor (1869) Based on crafts (carpenters etc) Successfully held a strike of the Pacific Union rail road Haymarket Square bombing American Federation of Labor(1881) Led by Samuel Gompers Made more for industrial workers Believed that fair work should equal fair pay Wobblies (IWW) (1893) Formed by Populists Overtime w/ Eugene V. Debs Seen as an anarchist movement Patrons of Husbandry (1867) Believed in regulation of railroads Wanted social improvements Membership declined but never vanished Greenbacks (1878-1884) Offshoot of the granger movement Gen. James B. Weaver was the figurehead in 1878
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