The increase in the size and power of corporations galvanized efforts to build a national labor union. The Civil War created opportunities for workers with a particular skill to form "craft unions," which grew in size and popularity. The connection of such groups did not occur until the National Labor Union convened in 1866. The organization was primarily concerned with reforming state and local laws to improve working conditions, and often failed to devote the appropriate attention to wages and work hours.?

True

Explanation:

It wasn't until 1886 when Samuel Gompers organized the American Federation of Labor that a labor union actually focused on higher wages, shorter labor hours and better working conditions. The problem with the National Labor Union was that it supported almost utopian labor policies and political ideas, but it didn't focus on the actual working conditions of its members.

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