Samuel Yellen. American Labor Struggles, 1877-1934.

CONTENTS

Introduction

I – The railroad uprisings of 1877

1 – Panic and grievances

2 – The Baltimore and Ohio breaks the camel’s back

3 – Fire and riot at Pittsburgh

4 – ‘I am proud of the men of the Central Road’

5 – Rebellion in Chicago and St. Louis

6 – The right to work

II – Haymarket

1 – The eight-hour movement

2 – Anarchism and the Chicago idea

3 – The bomb is thrown

4 – ‘Let the voice of the people be heard!’

5 – Collapse of the Black International

III – The Homestead lockout

1 – The angel of the workingman

2 – Fort Frick  

3 – The invasion of the Pinkertons

4 – The militia at Homestead

5 – Charges of murder, aggravated riot, conspiracy, and treason

6 – ‘… to the unquestioned advantage of our employes’

IV – Strike at Pullman

1 – Model town

2 – Enter the American Railway Union

3 – White ribbons versus the red, white, and blue

4 – Government by injunction

5 – The strike is defeated

V – Anthracite, 1902

1 – ‘Black stones’ and ‘white horses’

2 – Maneuvering for a hold

3 – The strike is called

4 – Theodore Roosevelt, Arbitrator

VI – The Lawrence strike

1 – A few loaves of bread

2 – The struggle for leadership

3 – Arrest of Ettor and Giovannitti

4 – Exodus of the children

5 – A victory for the strikers

6 – ‘Open the jail doors or we will close the mill gates’

VII – Bloody Ludlow

1 – Feudalism in Colorado

2 – Coal companies and mining laws

3 – The ‘Death Special’

4 – The massacre at Ludlow

5 – Birth of the company union

VIII – Steel, 1919

1 – Labor policy in the steel industry

2 – New tactics: the federation of unions

3 – 100 per cent Americanism

4 – Signs of defection and failure

5 – Victory for the Steel Corporation

IX – The southern textile strikes and Gastonia

1 – Textiles migrate to the South

2 – Revolt of the ‘lint-heads’

3 – Gastonia’s reign of terror

4 – The United Textile Workers at Marion

5 – The goose that laid the golden egg

X – Longshoremen on the West Coast

1 – The Blue Book

2 – The battle of Rincon Hill

3 – General strike

4 – The National Longshoremen’s Board arbitrates