At this time, the rich were benefitting from all the industrial technologies in which they hired people for low pay. Labor unions were formed by workers to basically demand for better working conditions and better pay. Along with this, some workers demanded benefits for their labor. Labor unions allowed workers to come together and ask for better wages for their hard work they did.
Titled "The New Slavery and the New Slave Owner", this political cartoon depicts a large business owner looking sternly at the "new slave", a working man. The working man is surrounded by his loving family: his wife in anguish, his son angry at the big business owner, and the daughter looking distraught. This picture shows how the workers were considered slaves to the owners and how much pain and distress this caused people to feel. This also shows a great reason why labor unions were needed.
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