Which of the following best states the relationship between the government, company management, and striking workers during the late 1800s?
a: the government nearly always sided with striking workers against companies.
b: companies often hired government agents to keep striking workers in line.
c: the government nearly always sided with companies against striking workers.
d: companies often hired government agents to encourage workers to strike.

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the third choice or letter C. "The government nearly always sided with companies against striking workers." - best describes the relationship between the government, company management, and striking workers during the late 1800s. 

During the 1880s, that division fatally eroded. Despite its labor reform rhetoric, the Knights of Labor attracted large numbers of workers hoping to improve their immediate conditions. As the Knights carried on strikes and organized along industrial lines, the threatened national trade unions demanded that the group confine itself to its professed labor reform purposes; when it refused, they joined in December 1886 to form the American Federation of Labor (afl). 

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