How Did Capitalists Respond to Ohio Senator Mark Hanna's Request

question 50

Multiple Choice

How did capitalists respond to Ohio Senator Mark Hanna's request that industrialists should turn labor into "the ally of the capitalist, rather than a foe"?

• A) Most industrialists refused to compromise their authority and implemented more antiunion policies.
• B) Most industrialists willingly met with labor leaders and mutually agreed to better workers' benefits.
• C) Labor leaders turned down industrialists' compromises because they wanted to keep the strike as a measure of negotiation.
• D) Industrialists gave labor leaders the authority to establish "closed shops" where all workers had to join the union.

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