17. Document Project 17: The Pullman Strike of 1894

Quiz for Document 17.8 Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895

Quiz for Document 17.8: Report from the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike, 1895

Choose the best answer to the question.

1. What was the goal of the Commission to Investigate the Chicago Strike ?

To prevent the creation of more labor unions

To put a system in place to settle disputes between laborers and corporations

To limit the power of monopolies to break unions

To place privately owned railroad corporations under government ownership

2. What did the Commission suggest to reduce tensions and lower the likelihood of future strikes?

Yearly wage hikes by the owners of the company

Regular protests by union members to the company owners

Passing a rule to ban unions and fire members

Better communication between union and employers

3. What job protection did the Commission suggest for unions and their members?

A law prohibiting firing union workers simply for their membership

A contract promising higher wages for union membership

A federal organization to recruit new union members

A bill that prohibited the use of strike breakers to end a strike

4. What does the report reveal about the prevailing views toward labor in the late 1800s?

The Commission sided entirely with Pullman against the labor unions.

There was increasing sympathy for the labor union argument.

Labor unions controlled Washington, D.C., politics.

Unions were seen as being affiliated with Socialism and therefore suspicious.

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