The reason why labour leaders praised the Clayton Antitrust Act was because the Act prevented unions from being treated as trusts.
Answer: Yes. We were better over time but we became a poor country until people from all over the world started coming to seek a free country with a right of free religion. Then by the 1800's the US was becoming one of the richer country's across the world.
The correct answer is: B. The increase in the labor unions' political power
Labor Unions were on the rise during the Progressive Era and this enabled Debs, a socialist, to come to power.