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Led CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization). Boss of United Mine Workers. Led sit-in at General Motors.
John L. Lewis was an intense work pioneer, who helped raise expectations for everyday comforts for a great many American families in the 1930s. He was additionally a titan among American pioneers in the first a large portion of the 20th century, consistently prompting presidents and testing America's corporate pioneers.
United Mine Workers
This union was created by militant leader John L. Lewis in 1890; its methods, based on his stands on increases in pay, safer working conditions, and political stands, reflect Lewis' military style. In 1935 it had about 250,000 members out of which Lewis co-founded the CIO.
Individuals broke away from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955
Klu Klux Klan
Severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners, believed to erode old-fashioned American values
It drove in the long run to confinements on different classes of migrants.
Spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative), Stephenson's faults and jail sentence led to demise
The KKK Act caused a chivalrous, however short, unfunded, and undermanned ambush upon racial viciousness in the South. Amid Reconstruction, the KKK Act, in conjunction with government troops (rather than state civilian armies), helped smother the Ku Klux Klan. Halfway because of dark legal hearers' vicinity in government courts, various Klansmen were effectively indicted, fined, and detained, most remarkably in South Carolina.
Espionage Act: Law which punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during World War 1
Sedition Act: Added to Espionage Act, this act deemed "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution-- the reason why Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned.
In his war message to Congress, President Wilson had cautioned that the war would oblige a redefinition of national unwaveringness.
Political nonconformists endured the worst part of the constraint. Eugene V. Debs, who asked communists to oppose militarism, went to jail for almost three years. In July 1917, work radicals offered another prepared focus for assault. In Cochise County, Arizona, equipped men, under the heading of a nearby sheriff, gathered together 1,186 strikers at the Phelps Dodge copper mine. They set these specialists -large portions of Mexican plunge -on railroad steers autos without nourishment or water and left them in the New Mexico desert 180 miles away.
The radical work association, the International Workers of the World (IWW), never recouped from government assaults amid World War I. In September 1917, the Justice Department organized gigantic attacks on IWW officers, capturing 169 of its veteran pioneers.
A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities
The outcome was that on June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The Act approved solid fines and jail terms of up to 20 years for any individual who discouraged the military draft or supported "unfaithfulness" against the U.S. government. Congress likewise passed a progression of movement, hostile to revolutionary, and subversion acts (counting the Sedition Act of 1918) that looked to criminalize or rebuff support of fierce upset. Accordingly, on June 2, 1919 various bombs were exploded by Galleanist agitators in eight American urban communities, incorporating one in Washington that harmed the home of recently delegated Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
Dawes Plan
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S.
The Dawes Plan gave transient monetary advantages to the German economy. It mellowed the weights of war reparations, settled the money, and conveyed expanded remote speculations and advances to the German market. Be that as it may, it made the German economy subject to outside business sectors and economies, and in this way issues with the U.S. economy (e.g. the Great Depression) would later extremely hurt Germany as it did whatever is left of the western world, which was liable to obligation reimbursements for credits of American dollars.
A legal case in which it was ruled that government can limit free speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
The most imperative note to leave the case Schenck v. The United States is that free discourse is not really boundless. After the case the "reasonable and present threat" test was contrived to focus when discourse is not secured. This test was to used to choose whether a discourse made a reasonable and present peril. Assuming this is the case, it was not secured under the First Amendment. The test was later modified to the more adaptable "terrible inclination" test and in the end to the "inevitable rebellious activity" test.
Erupted in the early 1920's. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes.
The Red Scare departed a terrible legacy: wholesale infringement of sacred rights, extraditions of many blameless individuals, fuel for the flames of nativism and bigotry. Business gatherings, for example, the National Association of Manufacturers, discovered "Red-bedeviling" to be a successful device in post bellum endeavors to keep unions out of their production lines. The Red Scare took its toll on the ladies' development too. Prior to the war, numerous suffragists and women's activists had kept up ties and imparted stages to Socialist and work bunches. The suffrage development specifically and had united ladies from altogether different class foundation and political points of view
Washington Naval Conference
A conference hosted by the US which called for US and British de-fortification of Far East possessions (though Japan could fortify all it wanted). Also called for general naval disarmament.
At the time, Japan had started to develop its naval force and debilitate the "offset of force" adrift. This meeting address the danger of another maritime race (recall the German-Anglo maritime race that added to the begin of WWI). The Americans and the British were getting concerned by the development of the Japanese Navy thus they worked out a concurred proportion of 5:5:3 (US:Britain:Japan) as far as maritime quality; France and Italy got a proportion of 1.75
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