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How did U.S. Steel in 1937 respond to the newly formed Steel Workers' Organizing Committee?
 
  A) It lived up to its reputation as the crouching lion in the pathway of labor and crushed the new union.
  B) It countered with the establishment of a company-sponsored employee association.
  C) It recognized the union, granted a wage increase, and agreed to a forty-hour week.
  D) It engaged in a protracted dispute with the union which included a major strike over union recognition.
  E) It closed down the union and drove the socialists and agitators off the property.

Question 2

The Committee for Industrial Organization was established
 
  A) to organize skilled workers.
  B) by industrialists to undermine the power of labor unions.
  C) by President Roosevelt as one of his alphabet agencies to address economic problems.
  D) to bring workers for Little Steel into the collective-bargaining cycle.
  E) to organize all workers in a particular industry, regardless of race, gender, or degree of skill.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

E





 

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