Compare and Contrast Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Knights of Labor

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Compare and Contrast coalition of Immokalee workers and the knights of labor In the United States during industrialization (1865-1900) unions became a thing these groups protested everything from normal work hours, equal pay for equal work, and political reform including the graduated income tax. During this time there where many unions and many dealt with human rights issues and food the coalition of Immokalee workers and the knights of labor. During industrialization there was a union by the name of knights of labor they were a secret society of tailors in Philadelphia in 1869. During the hard years of the 1970s the organizations numbers grew slowly but by the end of the decade militancy and their numbers grew. Under the leadership of Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly the organization flourished by 1886 the group had 700,000 members. Powderly later dispensed the rule of secrecy and committed the group to seeking the eight hour work day, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and political reform including the Graduated income tax. The knights of labor strongly supported the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 and the contract labor law of 1885. Powderly like many others believed that those laws were needed to protect the American work force against competition from underpaid laborers imported by unscrupulous employers. He believed in boycotts and arbitration but he opposed strikes. A successful strike by the knights against jay Gould’s southwestern railroad system in 1884 brought a flood of new members. Over Powderly objections the other members of the knights participated again so when the workers struck the Gould system again in the spring only to be beaten again- In the general strike that began in Chicago On May 1, 1886. On May 4 when a bomb explosion at worker rally in Haymarket square it triggered a national wave of arrests and

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