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Sep 25, 2018 · Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) was a key American labor union leader who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as its president for nearly four decades, from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
May 24, 2023 · May 25, 1911 Letter from AFP president Samuel Gompers. (American Federation of Labor Records) During World War I, Gompers and the A. F. of L. were supportive of the war efforts and Gompers was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the Council of National Defense and chaired a Labor committee.
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May 23, 2018 · English-born American union leader and union organizer. The American labor leader Samuel Gompers was the most significant person in the history of the American labor movement (the effort of working people to improve their lives by forming organizations called unions).
Samuel Gompers met Theodore Roosevelt while campaigning for an 1882 bill to ban cigar manufacturing in New York tenement buildings. A young Republican assemblyman, the future president vociferously opposed the bill until Gompers took him on a tour of the slums of New York City.
Dec 28, 2023 · Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) is the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Gifted at orating and assembling strikes, Gompers used them as effective weapons to change the degrading conditions of the working men of America.
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the first president of the American Federation of Labor, the first enduring national labor union. He served as president from 1886 until his death in 1924, except for a single year, 1895. Born in London, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 13, and worked as a cigar-maker.
Papers. The nation’s leading trade unionist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until he died in 1924. "If there is any truth at all in democracy, if democracy has any real justification," he said, "it is as thoroughly justified in our industrial life as it ever ...
