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When A. Philip Randolph assumed the leadership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, he began a ten-year battle to win recognition from the Pullman Company, the largest private employer of Black people in the United States and the company that controlled the railroad industry’s sleeping car and parlor service. In 1935 the Brotherhood became the first Black union recognized by a major corporation. Randolph’s efforts in the battle helped transform the attitude of Black workers toward unions and toward themselves as an identifiable group; eventually, Randolph helped to weaken organized labor’s antagonism toward Black workers. In the Pullman contest Randolph faced formidable obstacles. The first was Black workers’ understandable skepticism toward unions, which had historically barred Black workers from membership. An additional obstacle was the union that Pullman itself had formed, which weakened support among Black workers for an independent entity. The Brotherhood possessed a number of advantages, however, including Randolph’s own tactical abilities. In 1928 he took the bold step of threatening a strike against Pullman. Such a threat, on a national scale, under Black leadership, helped replace the stereotype of the Black worker as servant with the image of the Black worker as wage earner
. In addition, the porters’ very isolation aided the Brotherhood. Porters were scattered throughout the country, sleeping in dormitories in Black communities; their segregated life protected the union’s internal communications from interception. That the porters were a homogeneous group working for a single employer with single labor policy, thus sharing the same grievances from city to city, also strengthened the Brotherhood and encouraged racial identity and solidarity as well. But it was only in the early 1930’s that federal legislation prohibiting a company from maintaining its own unions with company money eventually allowed the Brotherhood to become recognized as the porters’ representative. Not content with this triumph, Randolph brought the Brotherhood into the American Federation of Labor, where it became the equal of the Federation’s 105 other unions. He reasoned that as a member union, the Brotherhood would be in a better position to exert pressure on member unions that practiced race restrictions. Such restrictions were eventually found unconstitutional in 1944. 5. The passage suggests that in the 1920’s a company in the United States was able to (A) use its own funds to set up a union (B) require its employees to join the company’s own union (C) develop a single labor policy for all its employees with little employee dissent (D) pressure its employees to contribute money to maintain the company’s own union（A） (E) use its resources to prevent the passage of federal legislation that would have facilitated the formation of independent unions
貌似文中“prohibiting a company from maintaining its own unions ”只是做federal legislation的修饰语，属于federal legislation的固有特性。 这并不代表early 1930’s之前的federal legislation就不prohibiting a company from maintaining its own unions！ 也就是说：即便你don't allow the Brotherhood to become recognized,你仍然是禁止 a company from maintaining its own unions的。
于是原文可理解为： in the 1920's， federal legislation that prohibited a company from maintaining it own unions with company money didn't
allow the Brotherhood to become recognized until in the early 1930's, the
same legislation——the one that still prohibited a company from maintaining it own unions with its own funds——allowed the Brotherhood to become recognized.
这样理解完全符合逻辑，但与标准答案A选项相矛盾！！！ 请NN指点。
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