Title: What Successes Did Unions Experience in the Early 1900s? | Synonym
Headings: What Successes Did Unions Experience in the Early 1900s?
What Successes Did Unions Experience in the Early 1900s?
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1 Union Membership
2 Child Labor Laws
3 American Federation of Labor
4 Women's Labor Concerns

Content: Employers attempted to combat the unions with John Sherman’s antitrust laws established in 1890, so the AFL sought legislation and political methods to exclude unions from those precedents. For example, Gompers convinced President Woodrow Wilson to create a wartime labor policy that supported independent trade unions and collective bargaining, including wage negotiations and better working conditions. During World War I, labor union membership reached peak numbers. The exact number is unknown but historians speculate it was in the millions. 4 Women's Labor Concerns
Women benefited from labor union successes early in the 20th century. In 1900, several trade unions joined together to form the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York City that contained a large number of Jewish female immigrants. The women sought reform for better wages, safer working conditions and more acceptable work hours. The first national trade association for organizing women workers, known as the Women’s Trade Union League, was established in 1903. The WTUL included women from all socioeconomic classes who united and petitioned their employers for fair labor practices.