One of the key goals of the organization, as indicated in the excerpt from the 1886 preamble to the Knights of Labor Constitution, is protection of workers' rights and securing fair wages. The text emphasizes the need for workers to enjoy the wealth they create and to have sufficient leisure to develop their abilities, highlighting a focus on workers' rights and equitable compensation.
Based on the following excerpt from the 1886 preamble to the Knights of Labor Constitution, what was one of the key goals of the organization?
"The alarming development and aggressiveness of great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the hopeless degradation of the toiling masses... We declare it to be our purpose to secure to the workers of our country the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral and social faculties, all of the benefits, recreations and pleasures of association, in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization."
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Establishment of a national minimum wage
Establishment of a national minimum wage
Redistribution of wealth through government programs
Redistribution of wealth through government programs
Protection of workers' rights and securing fair wages
Protection of workers' rights and securing fair wages
Abolishment of child labor only in factories
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