HISTORY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interstate Commerce Act Of 1887, Sherman Antitrust Act, Pullman Strike
28 Sep 2016
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American federation of labor (1886) strikes and collect bargaining to reduce hours and increase wages, more exclusive compared to kol, organized by craft not industry created some segregation within afl, Granger laws il, wi, ia, mn, limited the rates that rr could charge farmers shipping their goods, overturned by the supreme court in wabash v il, bc interstate commerce was the domain of the federal govt. Sherman anti-trust act (1890) restricted size of business, illegal to resist trade, us v ec. Knight co supreme court ruled against using sata to prevent monopolies in manufacturing, court ultimately ruled strikes were restrictions of trade, and used power to intervene and stop strikes with injunctions. Pullman strike (1894) rr workers walked out of work around the country, transportation stopped, conflict between strikers and military in chi where 13 strikers killed, lots of property damage, webbs (leader) jailed.
