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- 1. Retail Price: $18, 450.00
- 2. STRIKE!
- 3. Grand Rapids, MI Early 20 th Century
- 8. 1 . Increase in the price of living 2. Poor working conditions: Long work days Minimal pay raises 3. Influx of cheap labor: Primarily from eastern and southern Europe
- 10. 9 hour work day 10 percent wage increase Safer working conditions Abolition of Pay based on peicework
- 11. Retain an open-shop system Allows for hiring and firing regardless of circumstance. Decline to bargain collectively with the workers
- 12. March 25, 1911 Workers ratify a proposal to strike on April 1 if their needs were not met. April 1 Both sides still April 19 Nearly 3000 workers leave their work bench.
- 13. Sligh Furniture Company # employed prior to strike= 350 # employed during strike-=0 Oriel Cabinet Company # employed prior to strike=350 # employed during strike=10 Nelson-Matter Company # employed prior to strike=220 # employed during strike=0
- 14. Some companies concede to demands Other companies stand strong Remaining strikers: Eventually return Demands however, not met Furniture Industry never really recovers in Grand Rapids.
- 15. New York Shirtwaist Strike (1909) Bad work conditions No legislation passed 1911 Fire kills 146 Legislation passed Required improved factory safety standards