Question

A.

What can you infer from the tone and content of the quotation from Samuel Gompers's letter?
Samuel Gompers represented companies that sued striking workers.
b. Samuel Gompers wrote to praise Judge Grosscup for supporting striking workers.
C. Unlike many federal judges in the 1890s, Judge Grosscup was a strong union supporter.
d. Judge Grosscup ruled against the striking workers whom Samuel Gompers represented.

Answer 1

Samuel Gompers, letter to Judge Peter

Grosscup, September 1894

"You say that 'labor must not attack capital.'

. . . labor has no quarrel with capital, as such.

It is merely the possessors of capital who

refuse to [give] labor . . . the justice which is

the laborers' due with whom we contend. . . ."

Source: Great Issues in American History, vol. 2, p. 108.

Answer:

d. Judge Grosscup ruled against the striking workers whom Samuel Gompers represented.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the excerpt of the letter, it can be found that the tone and content of the quotation from Samuel Gompers's letter showed "Judge Grosscup ruled against the striking workers whom Samuel Gompers represented."