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Question 1 • United States History and Geography

In the late 1800s, why might a potential new factory employee refuse to sign a yellow-dog contract?

Answer

because yellow-dog contracts required an employee and his family to live in a company town

because promising not to join a union would strip the employee of his ability to protest workplace injustices with the support of an organized workers’ group

because signing a yellow-dog contact labeled an employee as a scab and made him or her a potential target of union violence

because yellow-dog contracts required employees to report back to employers with any information regarding labor union organization

Explanation

A yellow-dog contract required a worker to agree not to join or support a labor union. Without a union, the employee would have less organized support when protesting unfair pay or working conditions. The contract did not make workers report on union activity or require them to live in a company town.

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