1. One of the late 19th century trade unionists credited with leading the campaign for Labor Day was

c. Peter McGuire of the carpenters.

2. One week after signing Congressional legislation designating Labor Day as the first Monday in September, U.S. President Glover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago to suppress what major strike?

d. the Pullman strike

3. The attitude of the capitalist class toward the working class in U.S. history was best expressed by

a. robber baron Jay Gould when he said, “I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half.”

4. Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs contended that the capitalist class saw the working class as

b. hands to run machines, cheaper and more replaceable then the machines.

5. Most labor historians believe that the most important victory ever won by U.S. labor, although many
still fear to tell the whole story, was won by

c. the 1937 sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, led by activists of the Communist Party USA, and followed by huge gains in trade union membership.

6. Perhaps the most important lesson for workers this year would be

c. to fight to develop militant trade union and political action at the community and national level, to restore and renew workers’ rights and trade union power, and to defeat the fascist forces rallying for Trump and his imitators.

Your score:

0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!

1 to 2 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.

3 to 4 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!

5 to 6 wrong: Danger! deviations possible. study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!