Samuel Gompers, letter to Judge Peter
Grosscup, September 1894
“You say that “labor must not attack capital.'
... labor has no quarrel with capital, as such.
It is merely the possessors of capital who
refuse to (give] labor ... the justice which is
the laborers' due with whom we contend
Source: Great Issues in American History, vol. 2, p. 108.
Which of the following is the BEST interpretation of bris quotation?
a. Union workers will not be satisfied until they financially destroy company owners.
b. Union workers' demands for higher wages are unrealistic.
C. Union workers should take over the factories in which they work.
d. Union workers want only the fair treatment that is their right under the law.