With the “New Immigrants” coming in from Southern and Eastern Europe, usually with not a penny to their name and with no understanding of the English language or democracy, many of the already-American citizens soon became frustrated. The average industrial worker had no skill, he or she would just have to learn how to operate a piece of machinery at the most. With no skill, many of these employees were of no value to the factory

Coming in with the many employees at a factory would be their filth. Multiply that by hazardous machinery, low wages, insane working requirements, and the fact that you could be fired at any second without concern, you would produce a very unhappy employee. The employees that felt these things were most ridiculous decided to band together and form labor unions. Labor unions would unite workers into one organization, and they would refuse to work, or strike, if their needs were not met. Labor unions seemed like a good idea at the time. The problems with the unions was that since there had been no previous legislation, the employer could just fire those employees striking, hire some immigrant scabs, and put those picketers on a Black List. But, even with that much ease in solving the problem, some strikes were successful. Some employers learned that if you keep your employees happy, you will have better production. But the bulk of big factories could care less about these labor unions. Soon, somebody got the idea to have a national labor union to let the factory bosses and government know that the American industrial worker was serious. They would call the first nation labor uni

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