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1)Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good because they tried to make good working conditions pay the workers more and stop child labor.

2)The triangle shirtwaist company was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because they jumped out of the window of a nine story building to not be burned to death. These deaths could have been prevented if they had better working conditions.

3)Monopolists did not want unions because because they did not like how they were trying to pay the workers more and for less hours. Union members did not like scabs because they put themselves in danger for less money then the original pay.

Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because they gave dignity and solidarity to unskilled workers even the african americans.