Question

Which goal was supported by socialists, but not by samuel gompers?
a. five-day work weeks
b. safety reforms in mines
c. workers' right to form unions
d. government ownership of factories

Answer 1

D. government ownership of factories. Gompers was a key figure in the labor movement but strongly opposed Socialists.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) government ownership of factories.

The goal was supported by socialists, but not by Samuel Gompers was the government ownership of factories.

Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). As the Union leader he was, he invited the unions to exert economic coercion through strikes, in a time that unions were greatly critiqued by owners. He always rejected the idea of government ownership of factories.