Communities & Social Movements
Group Members Jorge Escobedo, Noe Gastelum, Camila Martinez
Social Movement
Community Information: Fill in the table below! Each group member does one section.
3-5 sentences!
Which community does this
movement feature? (Who,
what, when, where)
Name: Jorge
Who is part of this
community? Name some
characteristics the members
have in common.
Name: Camila
Who are some of the main
figures of this movement?
3-5 people, 1-2 sentence
summary of their significance.
Name: Noe
Labor Movement
The labor movement started in 1768 when New York
journeymen tailors protested a wage reduction. It took place
in the United states, as a way to protect the common
interests of workers, like better wages and safer working
conditions. The people that truly started the movement was
the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers
(shoemakers) in Philadelphia in 1794. It was also a means of
finally putting an end to child labor, a problem that was very
prominent in that time.
César Chávez was a folk hero and symbol of hope to
millions of Americans. In 1962, he and a few others set out
to organize a union of farm workers. Nearly everyone told
them it was impossible. But for a time they succeeded
beyond anyone's wildest imaginings. Chávez was one of
the most inspirational labor leaders of the 20th century,
with an influence that stretched far beyond the California
fields. By 1967, the union had made tremendous strides.
But its contracts only covered 5,000 of the state's 250,000
farm workers and the grape strike had failed to stop the
shipment of table grapes to consumers. In August 1967,
the union struck Giumarra Vineyards, a family-owned
business and the largest grower of grapes in California.
The company's 5,000 workers left in the middle of the
grape harvest, and the company immediately brought in
strikebreakers and secured injunctions restricting the
union to no more than three pickets at each entrance. The
union, in turn, declared a boycott of Giumarra grapes.
- Samuel Gompers was the first and longest serving
president of the American Federation of Labor.
- César Estrada Chávez folk hero and symbol of hope
who organized a union of farm workers .
- Nelson Hale Cruikshank helped create Social
Security and Medicare.
Movement Information: Fill in the table below!
What is the reason for this The labor movement in the United States grew out of
movement? 3-5 sentence the need to protect the common interest of workers.
summary. There was poor wages and unsafe working conditions
and workers wanted a change for the better. They also
wanted to end child labor and protect workers that
retired or were injured.

Which events are part of this movement? Each group member is responsible for one

Group member name: Source Link: (add the article/website)

Camila https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-events/trian
gle-shirtwaist-fire
Event name: The Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire

Summary: 3-5 sentences

On March 25, 1911, a pleasant springtime afternoon, a fire broke out in a garment factory
near Washington Square in New York City's Greenwich Village. Within minutes, the entire
eighth floor of the ten-story tower was full of flames. Onlookers, drawn by the column of
smoke and the clamor of converging fire wagons, watched helplessly and in horror as dozens
of workers screamed from the ninth-floor windows. They were trapped by flames, a collapsed
fire escape and a locked door. The fire's impact on the politics of New York and the nation
took hold of me in the early 1990s. I had moved to the Village as a reporter for the Miami
Herald, and one day, while exploring the neighborhood, I was surprised to find the factory
tower still standing at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street. In the years that
followed, I often passed that corner and always paused to look up at those ninth-floor
windows.

What was the outcome (or what is the projected outcome) of this event? 1-2 sentences
Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to
their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers, mostly young
women, were dead. Many of us have read about the tragic Triangle fire in school textbooks.

Group member name: Jorge Source Link: (add the article/website)

https://reference.jrank.org/populism/Cripple_Creek_War_
Event name: Cripple Creek 1894.html
War (1894)

Summary: 3-5 sentences Group member name: Jorge

The Cripple Creek was a five-month strike instigated by the Western Federation of Miners
(WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado. This happened due to the owners of the cripple creek
mine increasing the work day to 10 hours from 8 hours. When the miners protested, they only
agreed to putting it back to 8 hours for a salary of $2.50 instead of $3. This lead to the miners
from Cripple Creek and merging with other company’s miners to become a union, leading to a
strike that changed the work hours back to 8 for smaller companies but bigger companies like
Cripple Creek did not listen.
 What was the outcome (or what is the projected outcome) of this event? 1-2 sentences
This led to multiple smelter and ore processing facilities to either shut down or work part time.
While some owners tried to reopen their mines, the union attempted to keep miners from
working through predatory and threatening tactics, which proved to be successful.

Group member name: Noe Source Link: (add the article/website)

Event name: Labor Strikes

Rocked America in 1919 https://www.history.com/news/american-labor-unions-de
cline-1920s

Summary: 3-5 sentences Group member name: NOe

Food prices more than doubled and clothing prices more than tripled between 1915
and 1920. But most businesses refused to boost wages accordingly. In response,
over 3,500 work stoppages involving more than 4 million workers occurred in 1919.
As a result, membership in the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the
country’s largest labor union, surged by 50 percent between 1917 and 1919.
What was the outcome (or what is the projected outcome) of this event? 1-2
That fall, nearly 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America
went on strike, as did 365,000 steelworkers across the Midwest who
attempted to unionize. That February, labor unions across Seattle halted
work in solidarity with 35,000 shipyard workers who had walked off the job in
the first general (or cross-industry) strike in American history.

Pictures! Google image search your movement and add pictures below:

The triangle shirtwaist fire

Cripple Creek War