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Samuel Gompers

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Gompers , 1850-1924, American labor leader, b. London. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863. He worked as a cigar maker and in 1864 joined the local union, serving as its president from 1874 to 1881, when he helped to found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. It was reorganized in 1886 and became the American Federation of Labor, of which Gompers was first president and of which he remained president, except for the year 1895, until his death. He directed the successful battle with the Knights of Labor for supremacy, kept the union free from political... Read more
Gompers, Samuel 1850-1924
GOMPERS, SAMUEL 1850-1924 President of The...Federation of Labor Leader Samuel Gompers was the most important labor...working conditions. Background Gompers was born in London's East...income. In that year young Samuel was apprenticed in his father... Read more
Gompers, Samuel
Gompers, Samuel (1850–1924), labor leader, president...The . Bibliography Stuart B. Kaufman , Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor , 1973. J.H.M. Laslett , Samuel Gompers, in Labor Leaders in America , ed. Melvyn... Read more

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