Compare And Contrast Mccarthyism And The Knights Of Labor

Three unions that are similar & different. The Knights of Labor was a powerful labor union in the United States in the nineteenth century which was founded by Uriah Stephens in 1886 and was also lead by Stephens but then Stephens got replaced by Terence Powderly. American Federation of Labor was started by Samuel Gompers in the mid-1800s the AFL had came into place after the The KOL had begun to fall. Industrial Workers of the World came up in the late 1800s their key leader was “Big Bill” Haywood. The similar things between the three were they wanted the best for workers and had a group that was made of workers. They were all powerful labors that had usually ended due to failed tasks. The labor unions all had workers in one group going against the

they considered striking as a last resort for them. so did the AFL. IWW did think that they needed to do striking because they wanted to move quickly to get what they requested. The KOL didn’t like striking because back then it was very dangerous, which they were, during the riot in haymarket seven policemen and four workers were killed along with a 100 injured “ Under Powderly, the Union advocated arbitration and boycotts to settle labor disputes and did not necessarily support strikes. Arbitration is a form of meeting where the management would sit down with representatives of the workers and try to work out their differences oftentimes with a third party trying to help them reach a reasonable solution”. AFL eventually later on started doing strikes because the workers wanted to and the AFL started catering to it “ Gompers saw strikes as dangerous but necessary and only to be undertaken as a last resort, but the key idea, again, was collective bargaining, or ongoing negotiations between the workers as a group, as a union, and their management”, “ workers tended to really want to stick to their own, and the AFL in a way catered to