What Did President Truman Threaten to Do If Railroad Strikers

question 36

Multiple Choice

What did President Truman threaten to do if railroad strikers did not get back to work?

• A) use the army to run the railroads and draft the strikers into the military
• B) jail the strikers as suspected members of the Communist Party
• C) hire strikebreakers in their place to keep the railroads going
• D) outlaw sympathy boycotts by other unions who wanted to support the strikers

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