The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 17

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The Cigar Manufacturers' Association had declared that under no circumstances would any leaders of the strike be employed for at least six months.As a consequence,for nearly four months I was out of employment.I had parted with anything of value in the house,and my wife and I were everyday expecting a newcomer in addition to the five children we already had.My family helped in every way possible…Blacklisted,I desperately sought employment…Once I was ready to commit murder. All the children were ill…"
Samuel Gompers,"Strike Baby",1878
-Gompers' position concerning a striker would have been supported by all of the following except?

• A) Political bosses and their machines
• B) Settlement house workers
• C) Immigrants
• D) The People's Party

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Definitions:

Contradictions

Situations or propositions in which two or more opposing things are simultaneously present, often leading to conflict or dilemma.

Dialectical Philosophy

A philosophic approach emphasizing the process of thought resolving contradictions, often associated with the works of Marx and Hegel, among others.

Dialectical Philosophers

Thinkers who apply dialectical methods to examine contradictions in society, thought, and history, aiming to understand and enact change.

Structural-Functionalists

Sociologists who focus on understanding society as a complex system, where its components work together to maintain cohesion and order.