In the following quote what mission is samuel gompers describing?

“to protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties… as workers, and as citizens; … the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn…” —samuel gompers, 1898

a. the labor movement

b. benevolent societies

c. laissez-faire capitalism

d. social darwinism