Not all Pullman workers agreed to give up their union membership.

Read the quotation from a Pullman worker on the right. Which statement best expresses the author's view of union membership?

He believed that union membership is a right of every citizen.

He didn't like giving up his membership, but it was worth it to keep his job.

He was willing to die rather than give up his membership.

I do not like to walk up there and hand up my membership in the American Railway Union because when a man asks me to give up my principles, my rights as an American citizen, he might just as well ask for my life.

-Theodore Rhodie,

former Pullman employee

A) He believed that union membership is a right of every citizen.

Explanation:

This is the correct answer

Option A. The statement that best expresses the author's view of union membership is the following: He believed that union membership is a right of every citizen.

Explanation:

In the excerpt Theodore Rhodie, a former Pullman employee, expresses his discontent with being asked to hand up his American Railway Union membership, as he says that if he did so he would be also giving up his principles, and his rights as an American citizen. What he is doing by saying so is expressing how freedom to join a union is a right given to every American citizen, and therefore cannot be simply asked to be given up so easily, as it constitutes an important part of the worker's life.