Analyze and evaluate the knights platform for evidence of the unions point of view toward the federal government what role does it see for the state in regulating the relationship between workers and employers imagine carnegie reaction to the reforms advocated by the knights of labor in their statement of principles which specific statements might have elicited the strongest reaction and why? from the unions platform what conclusion can you draw about the statue of labor in industrial america what obstacles and challenges do powderly and his fellow knights identify as stumbling blocks to the equitable society they sought