successful in improving the position of workers as one was hoping it

would be. There are many results that arose from these organized

labor attempts that prove how unsuccessful they actually were. These

results include the collapse of many labor unions such as, NLU,

Knights of Labor, and ARU, the failure of many strikes such as, the

Great Railroad Strike, the Haymarket Riot, and the Pullman Strike,

and the techniques used by management to defeat labor.

The National Labor Union, otherwise known as NLU, was

organized following the time of the Civil War. This labor union was

created by William Sylvis. The NLU had a couple of main goals. One

goal was to return to the ways of early America; the time when

workers controlled the average workday and could actually make a

decent living and not have to work their heart and soul out for

pennies a day. They demanded eight hour work days, on average,

"eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we

will". They wanted equal opportunities for craft workers, skilled and

unskilled workers, and even reformers. The only exclusions were

those involved with banks, defending (lawyers), and

early 1870's, the NLU had created their own political party, a third

lost, heavily. With the Panic of 1872 and the Depression in the

in favor of violence and even ordered tat there be none used. The

a failure. Unions collapsed, strikes failed, and management did

anarchists were called to give speeches in support of the strikers. The

of the organized labor unions. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was

those that showed any promise turned out to be even.

organization. These Knights were led by Terence V. Powderly and was

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