Notes for January 10
Corrup Government and Organized Crime
- Contractors would pay of government officals
- Politians would create organizations called "machines"
- Head of machine was the mayor
- Also get ward bosses to go out to city dwellers to gain trust
- African Americans stayed to sourthern rural areas
- Taken advantage by whites
- Had to accept low prices and buy high prices
- Found work in coal mines, low jobs because they needed the money
- Only paid once a month with harsh conditions
- Jim Crow Laws
- Legalized segregation and seperation of races
- Usually only in the South
- North had prejudice but not laws like Jim Crow Laws
- Workers start to create unions to speak out on harsh conditions created by owners
- Key group, Knights of Labor, yet still failed
- Government did not support the unions and sent military to difuse the strike
- The AFL, American Federation of Labor was for skilled workers but not blacks, immigrants, or unskilled workers.
- IWW, Industrail Workers of the World, refused to sign contracts with employers that had harsh condition for workers
- Break out of voilence, Ludlow Massacre, 66 people killed including children as some of the victims
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