The Pivotal Event That Essentially Crippled Organized Labor Throughout the 1920s

question 22

Multiple Choice

The pivotal event that essentially crippled organized labor throughout the 1920s was

• A) the Supreme Court's ruling against the union closed shop in the Adkins case.
• B) the deportation of the most effective labor organizers to the Communist Soviet Union.
• C) the split within the American labor movement between the American Federation of Labor and the Socialists.
• D) the federal government's antilabor intervention that broke the 1919 steel strike.
• E) repeal of the Clayton Act guaranteeing unions the right to organize.

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