Answer:
D. developed a brotherhood of workers and an exclusive focus upon wages and hours rather than grand, Utopian schemes
Explanation:
Knights of Labour was the first labour organisation in US. It was founded in 1869 and Uriah Smith Stephens was its first labour. It began as a secret organisation to protect its members from the employer. This secrecy gave the organisation an emotional response. <em> </em><u><em>Its ideology was based on the unity of interest of farmer, shopkeepers and labourers</em></u><em>. </em>
It membership was at its peak in 1886 with 700,000 members. But its membership and influence declined after 1886. It campaigned for economic and social change such as abolition of child labour, equal pay for women and men, and abolition of child labour. The KOL allowed unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled workers into the organisation. <u><em>Women and African Americans were also granted membership. </em></u>
Answer:
The correct answer is the first option.
Policy and Supporting Positions is a document that:
... publishes the list of federal positions that are filled by appointments by the president after each presidential election.
Explanation:
The Plum is a publication of the Senate Committee on National Security and Government Affairs and / or the Government Oversight and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives. It was first published in 1952, under the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration. It lists thousands of leadership and civil service support positions (occupied and vacant) in the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government. The positions listed may be subject to non-competitive appointments.
The list includes:
- Executive calendar and equivalent salary positions paid at established rates
- "General" Positions of the Superior Executive Service
- Senior Foreign Service Positions
- Positions of Annex C
- Other confidential positions or policy determinants in the GS-14 and higher level
They were unfair and excessive. The stamp act in 1765 was the first direct tax ever levied by Parliament on all the colonies. All newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, and on unofficial documents were all required to have stamps. The Townshend act in 1767 placed a tax on a number of essential goods including paper, glass, and tea. Angered at the tax increases, colonists organized a boycott of British goods. The tea act of 1773-In June 1772, in what became known as the Gaspée Affair, a British warship that had been vigorously enforcing unpopular trade regulations was burned by American patriots. Soon afterwards, Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts reported that he and the royal judges would be paid directly from London, thus bypassing the colonial legislature.
