By the turn of the 20th century, labor unions did destroyed the free market by encumbering businesses with regulations essentially penalizing the wealthy for being successful because mostly everyone in America was affected. The workplace begun to change over the years that many of the people were leaving the country. Many unskilled workers became a group and had to work together. The people had to face many difficult working conditions, such as low pay and more working hours.
As people were being forced into working for more hours, Albert Parsons, a peaceful man started a strike where he wanted the congress to pass the eight-hour law. On document B, Albert parsons first came as a peaceful man that wants change, he wants the people to get paid more and work less. Albert parsons is a man of the state, he intends to pass this law. Albert knew that if …show more content…
Document F states, the wages are not allowed to fall, if the minimum wage is $25 than the minimum for the people will than be $23. Companies think this is fair for the people because the companies have wasted tons of money on the machines that the people use to work. They think it is fair for the people to take away some of the saving that they earned to pay off the machines that these companies are buying. All in all Albert Parsons wanted to pass the eight-hour law because the people were forced to work more than eight-hours a day, and get payed even more less than the minimum wage. People were paid under the minimum wage because the companies would take away some of the money so they can pay off machines that the people use to work. People were faced with these conditions because these conditions did destroy the free