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- Samuel Gompers was a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history, founding the American Federation of Labor.
- Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
- In 1886, it was reorganized into the American Federation of Labor, with Gompers as its president.
- Gompers was elected president of Cigarmakers' International Union Local 144 in 1875.
- Samuel Gompers began his labor career familiar with, and sympathetic to, the precepts of socialism, but gradually adopted a more conservative approach to labor relations.
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- The American Federation of Labor , led by Samuel Gompers until his death in 1924, proved much more durable than the Knights of Labor .
- Samuel Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887.
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- The new American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gompers, found the solution.
- Gompers repudiated socialism and abandoned the violent nature of the earlier unions.
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- Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) died in 1924
after serving as its president for 37 years, while successor William Green, secretary-treasurer
of the United Mine Workers, "lacked the aggressiveness and the imagination
of the AFL's first president."
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- Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor died in 1924 after serving as the organization's president for 37 years.
- Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor for 37 years, died in 1924.
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- Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and nearly all labor unions were strong supporters of the war effort.
- President Wilson appointed Gompers to the powerful Council of National Defense.
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- In 1881, Samuel Gompers, a Dutch immigrant cigar-maker, and other craftsmen organized a federation of trade unions that five years later became the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
- Gompers was its first president.
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- Rather than open its membership to everyone, the AFL, under former cigar-makers union official Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers.
- As such, Gompers helped turn the labor movement away from the socialist views earlier labor leaders had espoused.
- By 1920, Gompers had largely marginalized the socialists' role to a few unions, notably coal miners and the needle trades.
- Gompers, notably, opened the AFL to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers.
- Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887.
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- Gompers, notably, opened the AFL to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers.
- While the organization was founded by socialists such as Gompers and Peter J.
- Furthermore, the AFL leadership took a pragmatic view toward politicians, following Gompers' slogan to "reward your friends and punish your enemies" without regard to party affiliation.
- Over time, however, Gompers became almost anti-political, opposing some forms of protective legislation, such as limitations on working hours, because they would detract from the efforts of unions to obtain those same benefits through collective bargaining.
- American Federation of Labor head Samuel Gompers (right) endorsed the pro-labor independent Presidential candidate Robert M.
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- Rather than open its membership to all, the AFL, under former cigar-makers union official Samuel Gompers , focused on skilled workers.
- As such, Gompers helped turn the labor movement away from the socialist views earlier labor leaders had espoused.