1. An early champion of declaring Labor Day a national holiday in the late 19 century was:
a. President William McKinley;
b. Financier J. P. Morgan;
c. Cigar Makers Union leader Samuel Gompers;
d. Peter MaGuire, socialist leader of the Carpenters Union.
2. In the U.S. conservative “business unionists” led by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) until the 1930s supported:
a. Organizing skilled workers only;
b. Accepting discriminatory policies against minority and women workers;
c. Opposing the formation of an independent labor political party;
d. All of the above.
3. From the 1920s on, the Communist Party, USA, fought to establish:
a. One big union;
b. Cooperation between business and labor;
c. Inclusive industrial unions open to all workers, regardless of skill, ethnicity or gender;
d. Unions that stay out of politics.
4. Communist Party activists played a leading role in organizing most of the major strike victories won by the American labor movement in the 20th century. Which of these victories did not have CPUSA activists playing a major role:
a. The San Francisco General Strike of 1934;
b. The Flint General Motors Strike of 1937;
c. The Ford Motor Company Strike of 1941;
d. The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1903.
5. Perhaps the most telling example of the long-term effects of the Cold War based anti-Communist labor legislation and purges of Communist and left leadership from unions is:
a. The sharp rise in real wages that American workers have experienced in the last 40 years;
b. The greater income equality that has developed over the last 40 years;
c. The decline in the percentage of unionized private sector workers from 35% in 1947 to less than 10% today;
d. The improvement in pension and health care benefits that unions have won in the last 40 years.
6. Donald Trump giving a Labor Day speech this year would be as trustworthy as:
a. Bernie Madoff establishing a new hedge fund;
b. Confederate President Jefferson Davis proclaiming his support for racial equality;
c. Publisher Rupert Murdoch proclaiming his support for socialism;
d. All of the above.
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