The Progressives

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production." — IWW Preamble, 1905

The IWW differed from the AFL by

  • A

    Endorsing wage arbitration boards

  • B

    Limiting strikes to skilled crafts

  • C

    Recruiting unskilled, immigrant, and Black workers across industries

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  • D

    Lobbying Republican administrations

Explanation

The IWW organized the unskilled and marginalized whom Gompers' AFL excluded, including timber, textiles, and migratory workers.

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