Labor Unions: The Failure to Gain Public Acceptance

In your opinion, what was the most significant reason for the failure of the labor movement to gain widespread public support?

The American labor movement was a victim of extremely poor timing. Unfortunately for unionists, their movement coincided with an explosion of capitalist and nativist sentiment. American industrialists saw greater production than ever before; men like John D. Rockefeller or  showed Americans just how much there was to be gained by focusing on industry. To make matters worse, the labor movement coincided with a surge of nativism. Socialism was viewed as a "foreign" concept, and immigrants were largely scapegoated for a number of problems faced by Americans during this period.