The Fundamental Attitude of Hayes and Other Republican Administrations Toward

The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation was

A) strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing.
B) attempts to establish the federal government as a neutral arbiter between business and labor.
C) support for organized labor's efforts to unionize various industries.
D) to support reasonable regulation of business.
E) to try to enlist farmers as a political counterbalance to industrial laborers.