d here they don't."-- Worker to a reporter for the Chicago Herald, 31 May 1890Both unions failed miserably to affect change that they so ardently stood for. In both cases a massive loss of life and a severely crippled or crushed union was the only real change that they accomplished. The ARU and the unified workers did not get their rents lowered. The eight-hour day strikers eventually would win out, but the fight was to long and costly for many. In the end the only thing either strike really proved was that the federal government was all too willing to intervene and support the monopolistic industrialists....
